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by bsder 1868 days ago
> Alpha’s loosey-goosey memory model makes multithreaded code on SMP systems more challenging.

I thought Alpha and ARM were the same with respect to that.

ARM had some fairly nasty to track down XFS file system corruption bugs for quite a while for exactly this reason.

The issue has always been that x86 goes out of its way to generally be more forgiving than the spec.