Instruction Reordering: Your Code Doesn’t Always Run in the Order You Wrote It
Aug 5, 2025 · 5 min read · When writing code, you naturally expect instructions to run one after the other in the exact order they appear. For example: x=1; y=2; You’d expect x = 1 to complete before y = 2 starts. But in reality, modern CPUs and compilers don’t always execute...
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