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Wed Apr 4 20:00:01 EDT 2001 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2001-April/064862.html

Dan Sugalski <dan at tuatha.sidhe.org> writes:

> No. On many processors it's a load, increment, store operation, and
> very much not atomic.

Ah.  The last time I programmed in assembly was on a PDP-10.  And
before that it was a PDP-11.  It's all the fault of these pesky
new-fangle RISC CPU's they use these days!  Thanks for the info.

|>oug

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