Farid Hajji wrote: [ ... ]
Shouldn't such counters be at least 64 bit wide?
You betcha. :-) The problem is that a 32-bit CPU, like the Intel x86 family, can't increment a 64-bit counter atomicly.
-- -Chuck
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