On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 12:09 AM Mateusz Guzik <mjgu...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Fully satisfying solution would be that all architectures get 64-bit
> ops, even if in the worst case they end up taking a lock. Then
> subsystems would not have to ifdef on anything. However, there
> was some opposition to this proposal and I don't think this is
> important enough to push.

Mateusz,

Who is opposing this particular polyfill solution?  Scott Long brought
up a situation in driver development where this would be useful as
well.  The polyfills lower the cognitive load and #ifdef soup which
are the right call here regardless of performance on toy ports.

Regards,
Kevin
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