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		Kenji on Aug 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things to commit just before leaving your job Thanks for clearing that up. I worked with threading a lot in C# hence my misconception that it could be used for spinlocks in C/C++ too.

masklinn on Aug 19, 2015 [–]

Yeah C#'s volatile has much larger semantics. IIRC on top of preventing the elision of loads and stores on the volatile, it prevents reordering of memory accesses across accesses to the volatile[0] and disables thread-unsafe optimisations (e.g. thread-local caching).

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