A long time ago, Linus wrote:
> An atomic op is pretty much as expensive as a spinlock/unlock pair on x86.
> Not _quite_, but it's pretty close.
Are both read and modify atomic ops relatively expensive on some CPUs,
or is it just modify atomic ops?
(Ignoring for this question the possibility that a mix of read and
modify ops could heat up a cache line on multiprocessor systems, and
focusing for the moment just on the CPU internals ...)
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