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Added a FIFO test to the atomic test suite. This is really useful because we might be able to use something like this for the SDL event queue.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:23:52 -0800
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41 * ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 41 * ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
42 * 42 *
43 * You can find out a little more about lockless programming and the 43 * You can find out a little more about lockless programming and the
44 * subtle issues that can arise here: 44 * subtle issues that can arise here:
45 * http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee418650%28v=vs.85%29.aspx 45 * http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee418650%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
46 *
47 * There's also lots of good information here:
48 * http://www.1024cores.net/home/lock-free-algorithms
46 * 49 *
47 * These operations may or may not actually be implemented using 50 * These operations may or may not actually be implemented using
48 * processor specific atomic operations. When possible they are 51 * processor specific atomic operations. When possible they are
49 * implemented as true processor specific atomic operations. When that 52 * implemented as true processor specific atomic operations. When that
50 * is not possible the are implemented using locks that *do* use the 53 * is not possible the are implemented using locks that *do* use the