...a Sun microprocessor to conditionally and atomically swap the contents of two words of memory...

...believe CAS actually stands for "compare and swap" or "compare and set"
depending on who...

copy-swap is what lock free algorithms rely on for updating a data structure. It...

...in context, or the meaning of "copy-swap".

STM is an alternative to locking for...

...more of a copy-swap thing? And isn't STM copy-swap at its core...

...Pro C++ compatibility
  ~ stlsoft::fixed_array_?d::swap() methods now implemented in terms of
    new...

...cool if there were atomic swap and ideally, compare
    and swap type functions in D...

...cast(byte*)&f)[0..4];
  swap(fbytes[0],fbytes[3]);
  swap(fbytes[1],fbytes[2...

...to put the float/double into an byte array and just swap?

Regan Heath Wrote:

...s in IEEE 745 format.  You just swap the bytes like it was any old...