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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Christoph Egger
  • Date: 2011-02-19 12:19:56 UTC
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This package provides semi-portable access to hardware provided
 
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atomic memory operations.  These might allow you to write code:
 
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- That does more interesting things in signal handlers.
 
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- Makes more effective use of multiprocessors by allowing you to write
 
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  clever lock-free code.  Note that such code is very difficult to get
 
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  right, and will unavoidably be less portable than lock-based code.  It
 
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  ia also not always faster than lock-based code.  But it may occasionally
 
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  be a large performance win.
 
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- To experiment with new and much better thread programming paradigms, etc.
 
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For details and licensing restrictions see the files in the doc
 
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subdirectory.