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MrBuddyCasinotoday at 8:12 AM2 repliesview on HN

The x86 memory model (TSO) is not Apple‘s invention, its a standard ARM extension.


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m132today at 10:15 AM

The memory model by itself isn't, however Apple implemented it before Arm released an (incompatible) set of extensions that approach the problem at the instruction level instead of adding an Apple-style global TSO on/off switch in an IMPDEF register [0].

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/4/10/1531

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drob518today at 10:20 AM

I thought Apple Silicon also has some extra hardware support for handling x86 flags emulation for Rosetta. But perhaps I’m remembering that incorrectly.