Right. But in the case of an array of booleans that will be polled and an exit condition will only be met if all booleans are set to true. The order in which a polling thread sees them as being true has no bearing on the functionality.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Paulo Costa <p...@fe.up.pt> wrote: > On 08/10/2010 18:35, Henry Vermaak wrote: > >> I think Jonas was talking about out of order execution in the cpu, not >> disk i/o. > > No, it was out of order writing to memory (RAM), modern CPUs/Memory > controllers can do strange things reordering writes to RAM. > > Paulo Costa > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pas...@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal