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This package provides semi-portable access to hardware provided atomic memory
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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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is 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, please see the documentation.
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WWW: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
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