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Comment by astrange

3 years ago

It did not do this, standard atomics are relatively fast because it's a unified memory system.

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vlovich123  3 years ago

ARM also has an option for weaker consistency atomics which help with speed (and ARC does take advantage of this but not something Apple sped up specifically extra afaik in silicon)

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