1 This package provides semi-portable access to hardware provided
2 atomic memory operations. These might allow you to write code:
4 - That does more interesting things in signal handlers.
5 - Makes more effective use of multiprocessors by allowing you to write
6 clever lock-free code. Note that such code is very difficult to get
7 right, and will unavoidably be less portable than lock-based code. It
8 ia also not always faster than lock-based code. But it may occasionally
9 be a large performance win.
10 - To experiment with new and much better thread programming paradigms, etc.
12 For details and licensing restrictions see the files in the doc