[elephant-devel] Serialization

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Ian Eslick dies 21/11/2006 hora 01:30:
> It turns out that most implementations have a  non-standard call
> 'without-interrupts' that allow you, on a single  CPU architecture, to
> suspend interrupts and create a low-cost  critical section.

Well, after some reading on it, I understand that running code with
interrupts disabled has a big hit on performance, for multiple CPUs
architectures, that CAS has not.

How do you intend to differentiate architectures that provide CAS?

Lock-freely,
Pierre
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