Subj : Interlocked operations (Atomic Counter)
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Uenal Mutlu
Date : Sat May 21 2005 08:51 pm

John M. Dlugosz has a good text (2001) and code on fast atomic operations, incl. some
performance test results:
  http://www.dlugosz.com/Repertoire/refman/Classics/atomic_counter_whitepaper.html
Citation:
"Using atomic primitives is two to three times faster! Even more important to some uses, they never block."

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