On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 06:35:00PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> > - ALPHA (big pain in the ass to get right, nobody uses it anymore)
>
> Yes, for many years now ALPHA has only been useful as a way of
> illustrating how bad it's possible for CPU memory operation reordering
> considerations to get. So I quite agree.
Are there any optimizations we have avoided, or 'volatile' designations
added, only for Alpha? Could we improve other things if Alpha support
was dropped?
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