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  <title>A portable library for atomic memory operations</title>

  <description>This package provides semi-portable access to hardware provided

atomic memory operations.  These might allow you to write code:

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* That does more interesting things in signal handlers.

* Makes more effective use of multiprocessors by allowing you to

write clever lock-free code. Note that such code is very difficult

to get right, and will unavoidably be less portable than lock-based

code. It ia also not always faster than lock-based code. But it may

occasionally be a large performance win.

* To experiment with new and much better thread programming

paradigms, etc.

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For details and licensing restrictions see the files in the doc

subdirectory.</description>

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