On Mar 15, 2007, at 11:26 AM, matthew green wrote:

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>   Anyway, I've decided to stick with "cas" as "compare-and-store".
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> i really wish you wouldn't.  as an example, google gives:
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>    Results 1 - 10 of about 19,400 for "compare and swap" cas
>    Results 1 - 10 of about 50 for "compare and store" cas

And how many "compare-and-swap" functions return the old value?  Many  
of them just return true or false.

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> and infact there are only 22 results for the latter, and lot of
> them are this thread.
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>
> .mrg.

-- thorpej