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

[Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 16 September 2014 at 04:19:45 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grostad wrote:
> 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

... which I really need to add to core.atomic.