Re: race on multi-processor solaris

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 12/02/03 

Date: 02 Dec 2003 22:59:10 GMT

"SenderX" <xxx@xxx.xxx> writes:

>To clarify...

>The lock-based test WILL NOT USE ANY lock-free optimizations.

>The test is to compare lock-based tech with lock-free tech, so lock-based
>has to be true to itself.

I'm hoping you're using the "system provided locking
primitives"? Not something you wrote yourself?

I'd prefer it if it was:

        - C
        - "CAS" code called and specified as "C" functions
        (which obviously won't work) and asm "proper"
        implementations in a separate file

Casper 

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