[cpp-threads] Re: Increment/decrement operators on atomics package

[Alexander Terekhov]

On 4/28/07, Raul Silvera <rauls at ca.ibm.com> wrote:
[...]
> At this point we're fairly confident that SC is achievable on current PPC
> implementations by having hwsyncs between each pair of accesses. It is
> widely believed that this was the intent of the architecture,

This is news for me. Consider:

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/adve95shared.html

"partly supported by an IBM ...  supported by DARPA"

;-)

regards,
alexander.