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Subject: Re: light weight counters: race free through local_t?
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Zoltan Menyhart wrote:

> My conclusion: let's stick to atomic counters.

Good to know. But we would run into trouble if the atomic counters would 
be contended.