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Is Alpha considered ultra-weak?

Is Alpha considered ultra-weak?

Posted Dec 22, 2011 17:44 UTC (Thu) by mfedyk (subscriber, #55303)
In reply to: Is Alpha considered ultra-weak? by PaulMcKenney
Parent article: Validating Memory Barriers and Atomic Instructions

What about MIPS? My understanding is that it is a very weak memory architecture. How does it compare?


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Is MIPS considered?

Posted Dec 22, 2011 18:31 UTC (Thu) by PaulMcKenney (subscriber, #9624) [Link]

I have yet to see a definition of the MIPS memory-ordering model, but I do hope to at some point. Until then, I have no idea, but MIPS is rumored to have a weak memory model similar to ARM and PowerPC.

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