Multicores and Publication Safety

[Walter Bright]

Jb wrote:
> What Bartoz said.. "writes to memory can be completed out of order and"
> 
> Is not true on x86.

It's risky to write such code, however, because:

1. someone else may try to port it to another processor, and then be 
mystified as to why it breaks

2. Intel may change this behavior on future x86's, which means your code 
will break years from now