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64-bit atomic reads and writes on x86 | niallryan.com
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This may be of interest:
64-bit atomic reads and writes on x86 | niallryan.com
Atomic operations should be the default strategy, only falling back to performance-killing synchronization objects when their use is impossible. Synchronization will ruin scalability every time.
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