[Interest] Heavily Commented Example: Simple Single Frontend with Two Backends

Graeme Gill graeme2 at argyllcms.com
Tue Oct 23 13:11:42 CEST 2012


Till Oliver Knoll wrote:
> As Bo pointed out on "ordinary desktops" you are probably lucky, since
> the Intel desktop architecture (single CPU, multiple cores) apparently
> have "coherent caches".

I doubt there is any luck involved. Coherent memory architectures
are the simplest and least error prone for programmers used to
single processor architectures, hence their popularity
on hardware that supports general purpose operating systems
and general purpose applications.

Graeme Gill.





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