I wonder if this could be handled more easily by making memory smarter. The timestamps they talk about are really just lamport clocks I think. If ram used that

I wonder if this could be handled more easily by making memory smarter. The timestamps they talk about are really just lamport clocks I think. If ram used that on writes for atomic updates, then you could throw a fault (similar to a numerical overflow). Then compilers/code could just give devs a way to directly handle this. An OS could be designed to use this to reschedule threads, etc. Seems like this would be a more incremental option than requiring a full new architecture to be designed.