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Am Do., 1. Nov. 2018 um 16:56 Uhr schrieb David Greene <dag at cray.com>: > Ok. I would like to start posting patches for review without > speculating too much on fancy/exotic things that may come later. We > shouldn't do anything that precludes extensions but I don't want to get > bogged down in a lot of details on things related to a small number of > targets.

...st two of the array > store sequences will interfere with each other in the write-combining > buffers and will force early flushes of the buffer, effectively turning > them into single-store writes to memory. That's bad. > > Maybe the proper name for this concept is simply "WriteCombiningBuffer." > I'm not sure if some other architecture might have a concept of store > buffers that does something other than write-combining, so I was trying > to use a fairly generic name to mean, "some compiler-controlled hardware > buffer." > > There's a similar...