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		api on June 9, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: x86: Approaching 40 and still going strong I've ported a lot of code back and forth and I've never encountered any difficulties related to weak vs. strong memory model. It might matter for lock-free data structures and other potentially hardware sensitive code, but it doesn't matter for 99% of code.

nickpsecurity on June 9, 2017 [–]

Not to mention there are safe, concurrency schemes one can use that are higher abstraction than x86 hardware.

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