I was curious about other processors, and Wikipedia has a nice comparison table here for some of the more major architectures.
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Another reason to care is that software and runtime optimizations such as "constant propagation, common subexpression elimination, loop fission/fusion, loop invariant code motion, software pipelining, and instruction scheduling" (A Primer On Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence) also reorder memory accesses, making an understanding of memory models important.
I was curious about other processors, and Wikipedia has a nice comparison table here for some of the more major architectures.
Another reason to care is that software and runtime optimizations such as "constant propagation, common subexpression elimination, loop fission/fusion, loop invariant code motion, software pipelining, and instruction scheduling" (A Primer On Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence) also reorder memory accesses, making an understanding of memory models important.