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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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John Baldwin wrote:
> the refcount for now, but I still have patches that
> some people don't like for implementing a simple refcount API just using
> atomic operations.

Please commit these.  Using mutexes in this instance is just
a happy way to put the performance in the toilet.

-- Terry

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