On Friday, May 06, 2011 5:25:46 pm Richard Earnshaw wrote: > 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)
Interesting... ..Thanks! > R. Regards Ken _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
