Comment on Lock-Free Rust: How to Build a Rollercoaster While It's on FireparentComments−eslaught1yI'm not sure what the author intended, but one way to implement atomics at the microarchitectural level is via a load-linked/store-conditional pair of instructions, which often involves tracking the cache line for modification.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-link/store-conditionalIt's not "24/7" but it is "watching" in some sense of the word. So not entirely unfair.
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I'm not sure what the author intended, but one way to implement atomics at the microarchitectural level is via a load-linked/store-conditional pair of instructions, which often involves tracking the cache line for modification.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-link/store-conditional
It's not "24/7" but it is "watching" in some sense of the word. So not entirely unfair.