Pass 2.3

[Boehm, Hans]

Looks good.  But I think the comparison in "Fun" is backwards.  Delete the return and reindent.

Minor point for future discussion:
If you implement atomics with private locks, you also need to disable signals.  (Atomic_ops can do this as a last resort.)  It may be cheaper to just do the emulation in the kernel.  I dimly recall that this was done for AIX on Power a long time ago.

Hans

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrei Alexandrescu [mailto:andrei at metalanguage.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 4:33 PM
> To: Kevlin Henney
> Cc: Doug Lea; Boehm, Hans; 'Ben Hutchings'; Doug Lea; pugh at cs.umd.edu
> Subject: Re: Pass 2.3
> 
> 
> Ok, I've made a quick pass, put some pizzazz in, etc. If anyone could 
> give it a read and comment on it, that would be great. Thanks!
> Andrei
> P.S. If you want to compile the doc, you'll need the listings package.
>