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by pjmlp 40 days ago
Originally CUDA hardware was designed without a specific memory model, after C++11, NVidia went into a multi year effort to redesign the hardware to match C++ memory model semantics.

CppCon 2017: "Designing (New) C++ Hardware”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86seb-iZCnI

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Thanks, that’s interesting. It feels like a sensible choice.