On Mar 15, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> But that also does away with the whole issue about choosing between  
> compare_and_swap() and compare_and_store() since that is about  
> wether one would be easier in general to implement on machines.  
> Obviously, from this conceptual description, either would be just as  
> easy.

Indeed, we've wasted a lot of Internet bandwidth on this sub-topic :-)

Anyway, I've decided to stick with "cas" as "compare-and-store".

-- thorpej