[erlang-questions] ets vs. SMP memory effects

[Jonathan Leivent]

After reading the on-line doc on ets, I'm a bit confused about its 
guarantees.  I understand that it guarantees atomicity and isolation for 
operations on a single object.  However, what about a sequence of update 
operations on different objects performed by the same process?  Are the 
results of these operations guaranteed to be visible to other processes 
in only the order in which they occur?  Or, might SMP-style 
weakly-consistent memory - or even compiler/hardware operation 
re-ordering - cause the updates to appear in a different order to other 
processes?

-- Jonathan