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If you're interested in the evolution of C++'s memory model, here are some papers on the topic: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/n2664.htm http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2429.htm http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2427.html A working draft for the next C++ standard is also available: http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2461.pdf (It incorporates some of the memory model changes.) Daveed

Hi Mon Wang, As I understand it the C++0x memory model will, by default, be similar to Java's in that it will assume sequential consistency, using acquire/release atomics (similar to Java's volatile), for all programs that do not contain data races. Unlike Java in the case when a program contains a data race, the program behavior is undefined. Adopting this model allows many sequential

Hi Ben, Vacation is always a good thing. Hope you had a good one. In my mind, having a more general memory consistency model is going to be very useful in LLVM in the future. It is still a little unclear to me what we should support. I haven't looked at what C++ is considering for their model. Are they going to support different relaxations models like relaxing write to read or