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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!rock!taco!odkahn
- From: odkahn@eos.ncsu.edu (OPHER DANIEL KAHN)
- Subject: Hardware support for atomic operations ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.173146.7509@ncsu.edu>
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 17:31:46 GMT
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- I am interested in primitives that support mutual exclusion in hardware, such
- as the Test-And-Set and Swap instructions which are atomic. I am especially
- interested in any such new primitives that may have been developed in the
- last few years. If you know of any good references I would appreciate
- some e-mail!
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- Opher D. Kahn
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