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 "id": "a-bare-shared-across-rp2350-cores-loses-21",
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 "title": "A bare shared += across RP2350 cores loses 21% of updates, deterministically",
 "symptom": "Two cores each incrementing shared[0] 30,000 times produced 47,144 instead of 60,000 \u2014 12,856 updates lost, 21.43%, identical across all three trials.",
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 "intent": "Accumulate a counter or running total from work on both cores",
 "date": "2026-08-19",
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