Something needs to happen with shared, and soon.

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Le 14/11/2012 10:31, Jacob Carlborg a écrit :
> On 2012-11-14 10:20, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> Memory barriers can certainly be added using library functions.
>
> Is there then any real advantage of having it directly in the language?
>

The compiler can do more reordering in regard to barriers. For instance, 
the compiler may reorder thread local read write accross the barrier.

This can't be done with a library solution.