optlink on multicore machines

[Walter Bright]

Brad Roberts wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> BCS wrote:
>>> I IS running fine on 3 or 4 multicore machines around here.
>> That's a mystery, then.
> 
> Still sounds like a standard race condition.  Reducing the app to a single 
> core just makes it harder to hit.

There's more to it than that. Multicore has sequential consistency 
issues that single core does not.