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		anarazel on Feb 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Proces... PA-RISCs lacking support for any meaningful support for any atomics except TAS (one with weird alignment reqs) forced me to add an atomics emulation layer to postgres. So I somewhat hate it now ;)

tyingq on Feb 2, 2019 [–]

I wasn't aware of this before. Looks like the Linux kernel had to solve for that as well: https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FutexImplementation

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