acquireOperation

Acquire-Release Fences

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Acquire and release fences guarantee similar synchronization and ordering constraints as atomics with…
FullFence

Fences are Memory Barriers

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The key idea of a std::atomic_thread_fence is to establish synchronization and ordering constraints between…
acquireReleaseWithWaiting

Acquire-Release Semantics – The Typical Misunderstanding

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A release operation synchronizes-with an acquire operation on the same atomic variable. So we can easily…
trans

Transitivity of the Acquire-Release Semantic

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A release operation synchronizes with an acquire operation on the same atomic variable and establishes,…
acquireReleaseConsume

memory_order_consume

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std::memory_order_consume is the most legendary of the six memory models. That's for two reasons. On…
criticalRegion

Acquire-Release Semantic

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With the acquire-release semantics, the memory model gets very thrilling. Because now, we do not have…
producerConsumer

Sequential Consistency applied

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I have introduced In the post Sequential Consistency the default memory model. This model, in which all…
atomicOperationsReadWriteEng

Synchronization and Ordering Constraints

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In this post, our tour through the c++ memory model goes one step deeper. Until now, the posts were only…
fetch mult

Atomics

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In addition to booleans, there is atomics for pointers, integrals, and user-defined types. The rules…
conditionVariableAtomic

The Atomic Boolean

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The remaining atomics - in contrast to std::atomic_flag - are partial or full specializations of the…