Memory Ordering

[qinsoon]

In GitLab by @u6374399 on Dec 13, 2018, 17:17

Currently, we use sequential consistency to fix a bug. This is not performant as it will generate a lot of memory fences. This should be investigated and a possible solution is to change it to release and acquire.

The code can be found: https://gitlab.anu.edu.au/mmtk/mmtk/blob/master/src/vm/jikesrvm/object_model.rs