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by fohfauXoo3erieb 995 days ago
If a language is self-hosting that means it must guarantee translation of code that is not explicitly atomic in that language to instructions which are explicitly atomic in the CPU ISA to implement language explicit atomics.

I don't feel that the article take is useful or informative and amounts to gatekeeping ISA parallelism.

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Have you ever heard of "CMPXCHG8B"?
never heard of it mate
Couldn't resist, I take it?