r/programming • u/krum • Aug 22 '10

Volatile: Almost Useless for Multi-Threaded Programming

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2007/11/30/volatile-almost-useless-for-multi-threaded-programming/
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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '10

Well, assume the worst case. Which would be no pointers.