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From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>
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On 7 Dec 2000 23:23:18 +0100, Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't need cmpset operations, just atomic int32 and ptr assignments.
> The latter would be good enough to let me walk a simple list without
> having to take a lock.
> 

I thought the following URL might be useful to you:

http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/www/u/scott/synchronization/home.html

Especially, the concurrent queue algorithms.

	-Arun


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