Re: [boost] [interprocess] Atomic read and write.

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-11 04:49:14

Cory Nelson:

> I believe he is referring to cache coherency - on x86 and x64, read
> and write are always atomic in the sense that a read will never see
> half of the old value and half of a write.

I think that this is only true for aligned reads and writes.