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* Writes from SIMD and floating-point registers of a 128-bit value that is 64-bit aligned in memory  are treated as a pair of single - copy atomic 64 - bit writes.

@tannergooding said that x64 with AVX promises atomicy for 16B for 16B aligned data - so far it seems to be the only thing x64 can guarantee to us.

Note this is from9.1.1 Guaranteed Atomic Operations inIntel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual; Volume 3 (3A, 3B, 3C, & 3D): System Programming Guide

The Intel486 processor (and newer processors since) guarantees that the following basic memory operations will
always be carried out atomically:
• Reading or writing a byte.
• Reading or writing a word aligned on a 16-bit boundary.
• Reading or writing a doubleword aligned on a 32-bit boundary.

The Pentium processor (and newer processors since) guarantees that the following additional memory operations
will always be carried out atomically:
• Reading or writing a quadword aligned on a 64-bit boundary.
• 16-bit accesses to uncached memory locations that fit within a 32-bit data bus.

The P6 family processors (and newer processors since) guarantee that the following additional memory operation
will always be carried out atomically:
• Unaligned 16-, 32-, and 64-bit accesses to cached memory that fit within a cache line.

Processors that enumerate support for Intel® AVX (by setting the feature flag CPUID.01H:ECX.AVX[bit 28]) guarantee
that the 16-byte memory operations performed by the following instructions will always be carried out atomically:
• MOVAPD, MOVAPS, and MOVDQA.
• VMOVAPD, VMOVAPS, and VMOVDQA when encoded with VEX.128.
• VMOVAPD, VMOVAPS, VMOVDQA32, and VMOVDQA64 when encoded with EVEX.128 and k0 (masking
disabled).

(Note that these instructions require the linear addresses of their memory operands to be 16-byte aligned.)
Accesses to cacheable memory that are split across cache lines and page boundaries are not guaranteed to be
atomic by the Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Atom, Intel Core Duo, Pentium M, Pentium 4, Intel Xeon, P6 family, Pentium,
and Intel486 processors. The Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Atom, Intel Core Duo, Pentium M, Pentium 4, Intel Xeon, and
P6 family processors provide bus control signals that permit external memory subsystems to make split accesses
atomic; however, nonaligned data accesses will seriously impact the performance of the processor and should be
avoided.

Except as noted above, an x87 instruction or an SSE instruction that accesses data larger than a quadword may be
implemented using multiple memory accesses. If such an instruction stores to memory, some of the accesses may
complete (writing to memory) while another causes the operation to fault for architectural reasons (e.g., due an
page-table entry that is marked “not present”). In this case, the effects of the completed accesses may be visible
to software even though the overall instruction caused a fault. If TLB invalidation has been delayed (see Section
4.10.4.4), such page faults may occur even if all accesses are to the same page.

@jakobbotsch @dotnet/jit-contrib PTAL,Diffs (regression as expected because it made the whole#92852 algorithm more conservative, but the initial diffs were -400kb so most wins are expected to remain, obviously, most base addresses are TYP_REF like Jakob predicted).

Wins on ARM64 due better SIMD guarantees.

ImprovedDiffs on arm64

ImprovedDiffs on arm64

seems there are more regressions on linux/windows x64. Do we know why?

ImprovedDiffs on arm64

seems there are more regressions on linux/windows x64. Do we know why?

seems there are more regressions on linux/windows x64. Do we know why?

these are reverted improvements from#92852 because they turned out to be not legal (but fortunately, most improvements remained)

x86 SPMI jobs failed with timeout/"no space left", I'll check other runs