I want to add a Phobos module with template mixins for common idioms.

[Idan Arye]

On Monday, 20 May 2013 at 05:39:42 UTC, Diggory wrote:
> In your logic you're assuming that the order of operations is 
> maintained - without the correct memory barriers or 
> synchronisation both the compiler and CPU are free to 
> completely reorder any operations you do. That's why it's 
> always a bug to access mutable shared data without 
> synchronisation - any read not using some form of 
> synchronisation could give you back any value that the memory 
> is ever set to during the course of the program.

It can't be THAT chaotic. Neither the compiler nor the CPU will 
perform a check on a value and then go back in time to fetch an 
old version of that value and return it. This kind of behavior 
would break non-threaded code.