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Understanding synchronization with multiple processors...

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Atomicity of loads and stores on x86...

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CPU operations during g++ compiling...

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Why does floating-point output differ across platforms?...

How do I force the CPU to perform in order execution of a program without any loops or branches?...

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Does INVLPG instruction or mprotect() affect the CPU cache state while invalidating TLB entries?...

AVX2 / gcc: Improve CPU-level parallelism by using different registers...

How much of ‘What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory’ is still valid?...

What does memory_order_consume really do?...

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Handling Precise Exceptions in Tomasulo...

How do machines interpret binary?...

Why is a CPU branch instruction slow?...

Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?...

Why is Skylake so much better than Broadwell-E for single-threaded memory throughput?...

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