On 09/09/2011 05:14 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 9/8/2011 11:36, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> According to the documentation I read, this is automatic.
>
> It certainly depends on the CPU and architecture.

Well, yes, I was referring to the only architecture in existence that 
people are likely to be writing desktop applications for. :-P

> You also have to make sure you're not caching something in a register
> that you've written out the pointer to.

This is certainly true. That's why C has "volatile", for example.

>>> It kind of boggles my mind too. Just the complexity of the monitoring
>>> stuff is stunning, let alone actually getting work done. :-)
>>
>> Apparently it's one of the monitoring and load-balancing systems they
>> translated to Haskell...
>
> What is?

I saw a paper a while back about how Google (I forget which center) 
translated part of the monitoring system from Python to Haskell, and 
documented what they did and didn't find beneficial about this.

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