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CppCon 2017: Fedor Pikus “C++ atomics, from basic to advanced. What do they really do?”
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Fedor Pikus's CppCon 2017 talk on C++ atomics, looking at what they let the programmer express and what the hardware actually does. It covers memory ordering and lock-free programming from basic to advanced.
HN recommends it as an enlightening explanation of atomics, caches and memory ordering from a strong presenter.
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