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That's why people attempt abstraction

That's why people attempt abstraction

Posted Aug 14, 2011 19:16 UTC (Sun) by mlankhorst (subscriber, #52260)
In reply to: That's why people attempt abstraction by mjg59
Parent article: Avoiding the OS abstraction trap

there are tales of horror in the nvidia glue code, look up os_smp_*_barrier in the glue code. Or their shotgun approach to cache flushing, wbinvd instead of a bunch of clflush calls. ;)


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