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

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/16/14, 7:22 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> 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.

Yes please. -- Andrei