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-This package provides semi-portable access to hardware provided
-atomic memory operations. These might allow you to write code:
-
-- That does more interesting things in signal handlers.
-- Makes more effective use of multiprocessors by allowing you to write
- clever lock-free code. Note that such code is very difficult to get
- right, and will unavoidably be less portable than lock-based code. It
- ia also not always faster than lock-based code. But it may occasionally
- be a large performance win.
-- To experiment with new and much better thread programming paradigms, etc.
-
-For details and licensing restrictions see the files in the doc
-subdirectory.