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		amluto 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Optimizing a lock-free ring buffer Huh? Other languages that compile to machine code and offer control over struct layout and access to the machine’s atomic will work the same way. Sure, C++ has a particular way of describing atomics in a cross-platform way, but the actual hardware operations are not specific to the language.

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dalvrosa 4 days ago [–]

Yeah, different languages will have different syntaxes and ways of using atomics

But at the hardware level all are kindof the same

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