[dmd-concurrency] word tearing status in today's processors

[Robert Jacques]

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:51:22 -0500, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com>  
wrote:
> I can't provide contractory data, but careful with the assumption that
> because the cpu provides a byte assign instruction that it's atomic.

Tearing is different from being atomic. A regular store will always suffer  
 from publication safety issues on modern hardware.