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Subject: Commodore Free issue 19
From: nigel parker
Date: Tue, May 27, 2008 7:55 am
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Commodore Free magazine, issue 19, is available for
download in TEXT, PDF, SEQ, D64, and HTML Versions.

Contents of Issue 19

NEWS
uIEC news
General news
Behr-Bonz Multicart VIC20 Pal Version

PROJECTS
Wild Bunch project

REVIEWS
Dirmaster version 2
MossyCon 4 Personal Review

INTERVIEWS
Interview with Robert Bernardo

Scalable Nonblocking Data Structures
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/27/1916235

Cliff Click on a Scalable Non-Blocking Coding Style
http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/click_non_blocking

from above:

The major components of Click’s work are:

...

2. Atomic-update on those array words (using
java.util.concurrent.Atomic.*). The Atomic update will use either
Compare and Sweep (CAS) if the processor is Azul/Sparc/x86, or Load
Linked/Store-conditional (LL/SC) on the IBM platform.

... snip ..

or maybe compare & *swap* ... invented by charlie (i.e. CAS are charlie's
initials) when he was doing work on multiprocessing fine-grain locking
for cp67 virtual machine system at the science center. misc. past posts
mentioning smp and/or compare&swap
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#smp

Some message reminded me to keep up with Dilbert;

<http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2008-05-11/>

I know this guy!

http://romancesexgirl.blogspot.com/
(or)
http://worldsexymodel.blogspot.com/