From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-06 17:35:42
Miro Jurisic wrote:
[... Apple's lwarc/stwcx smells-like-FUD stuff ...]
Reading this
http://www.google.de/groups?selm=1dguf31.ssbf6n1ogodzrN%40michel.sophia.dcm.sat.fr
http://www.google.de/groups?selm=rbarris-ya023280001610980237340001%40206.82.216.1
http://www.google.de/groups?selm=alexr-1610981926250001%40roseal2.apple.com
http://www.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.ULT.3.90.981017011012.17495A-100000%40stoney.phys.ualberta.ca
http://www.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.ULT.3.90.981019134835.576A-100000%40stoney.phys.ualberta.ca
http://www.google.de/groups?selm=Pine.ULT.3.90.981020094604.8148A-100000%40stoney.phys.ualberta.ca
http://www.google.de/groups?selm=rang-2010981430230001%40margaret.trillium.adaptec.com
I gather that it's all about "hard to grasp" msync stuff, nothing else.
regards,
alexander.
P.S. BTW, that Apple's CompareAndSwap (as of 1998) looks really
over{i}sync'd beyond reasonable (redundant store aside for a moment).