== Quote from redsea ([email protected])'s article > When I implement some high performance program in linux 32bit, 32bit atomic > if often not sufficient, for example, If I want to hold a index & a timestamp to a atomic variable, 32bit is not enough, in 64bit environment, I can do that.
The IA-32 instruction set contains a 64-bit CAS operation in addition to the 32-bit CAS. You don't even need a 64-bit machine to do it! The atomics module in Tango supports 64-bit storeIf operations on 32-bit Intel platforms. Sean
