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'''Memory ordering''' describes the rules governing how memory operations (loads and stores) become visible to other processors in a multithreaded or multiprocessor system. Modern CPUs and compilers routinely reorder instructions for performance optimization, but in [[Concurrency|concurrent programs]], such reordering can break correctness if not constrained by explicit barriers or atomic operations with defined ordering semantics.

In [[Lock-Free Programming|lock-free programming]], memory ordering is not an implementation detail — it is the difference between a correct algorithm and a subtle, intermittent bug that appears only under specific timing conditions. Programming languages expose ordering constraints through memory models: C++ defines memory_order_relaxed, memory_order_acquire, memory_order_release, and memory_order_seq_cst, each trading performance for guarantees of visibility and ordering.

See also: [[Lock-Free Programming]], [[Compare-And-Swap]], [[Concurrency]], [[Atomic Operation]]

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