On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 17:06 +0200, Ken Werner wrote: > Hi, > > We've been thinking about adding support for the built-in functions for 64bit > atomic memory access and I'd like to know if this is of any interest. > Currently the main use of these functions seems to be to implement (SMP safe) > locking mechanisms where the existent 32bit memory ops are sufficient. > However, there might be code out there that implements a parallel algorithm > using 64bit atomic memory operations.
I've been told (though I've not verified it) that the Membase NoSQL database needs 64-bit atomic operations to work effectively (http://www.membase.org/downloadsrc) R. _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
