To: J3 J3/16-235r1 From: Nick Maclaren & Bill Long Subject: Discouraging spin-wait loops Date: 2016 June 10 Discussion ---------- The use of ATOMIC_DEFINE, ATOMIC_REF and SYNC MEMORY to implement spin-wait loops and similar schemes has been superseded by EVENT POST and EVENT WAIT. Therefore, Note 8.41 is no longer helpful advice and is best deleted. EDITS TO 16-007r1 ----------------- [203:22+ to 204:0+] In 8.6.5 SYNC MEMORY, delete Note 8.41 that starts "SYNC MEMORY can be used to ...". [204:0+] In 8.6.5 SYNC MEMORY, at the start of Note 8.42, replace "As a second example, the" by: "SYNC MEMORY can be used to implement specialized schemes for segment ordering. For example, the" [204:0+] In 8.6.5 SYNC MEMORY, in Note 8.42, indent the source code lines by 7 spaces.