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modelesstoday at 7:19 AM3 repliesview on HN

As noted in the article, Apple solved this problem six years ago by simply adding an x86-compatible memory ordering mode to their chip when x86 emulation became important. Yet another way Apple's chips lead the industry.


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saagarjhatoday at 7:21 AM

Well well well “modeless” has decided to finally see the light of modes

gavinsyanceytoday at 8:23 AM

And as noted in the article, while that helps a lot with most of the issues, there are some corner-cases they still don't handle.

karel-3dtoday at 8:57 AM

The word "simply" is doing a lot of work there