> I'd prefer to make updates atomic in multi-threaded applications. > The best proxy we have for that is -pthread. > > Is it slower, most definitely, but odds are we're giving folks > garbage data otherwise, which in many ways is even worse.
It will likely be catastrophically slower in some cases. Catastrophically as in too slow to be usable. An atomic instruction is a lot more expensive than a single increment. Also they sometimes are really slow depending on the state of the machine. -Andi
