Escaping the Tyranny of the GC: std.rcstring, first blood

[Ola Fosheim Grostad via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 15 September 2014 at 23:41:27 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
> Thanks for the link, I didn't know a solution exists. I'll have 
> to study the "differential" approach to see if it works for our 
> case and at what cost it comes...

Modern x86 has 128 bit CAS instruction too: lock cmpxchg16b