Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:45:37 04/28/00
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On April 28, 2000 at 13:28:22, KarinsDad wrote: >I read an interesting article by John M. Dlugosz titled "An Atomic Counter for >Guaranteed Thread Safety" and was wondering if anyone was using this technique >in their x86 SMP chess program. The article can be found in MSDN under >Periodicals 1998/Visual C++ Developer/August. > >Since these techniques only appear to work for certain data types, I would >assume that other techniques must also be used. What other techniques are being >used? > >Also, this article implies that this works with multiple processors, but did not >come right out and say it. > >This article also allows you to download source examples. And, some information >can be found at: > >http://www.dlugosz.com/Repertoire/ > >KarinsDad :) I use pure spinlocks everywhere. Simple and easy. And very high performance.
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