What would be the consequence of implementing interfaces as fat pointers ?

[deadalnix]

On Tuesday, 1 April 2014 at 23:05:55 UTC, dajones wrote:
> x86 uses something called (IIRC) a "store forwarding buffer". 
> Essentialy it
> keeps track of stores untill they have been completed. Any time 
> you read
> from an address the store forwrding buffer is checked first, 
> then caches and
> main memory. If it cant do that you have to wait for the store 
> to finalize,
> and that can be a lot slower again. If there's no pending store 
> it comes
> from the cache.
>

It is commonly called a store buffer? Most CPU have it these
days. Indeed, store are put in the store buffer until realized
(which can take some time as you have to acquire the cache line
from another core or memory).

When you load, the CPU snoop in the store buffer in parallel as
L1 cache for a value.