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From: Andy Venikov <swojchelowek@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What's the latest state-of-the art for EventCounts?
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 10:47:35 -0400
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On 04/29/2011 06:53 PM, Andy Venikov wrote:
> There are several implementations out there.
> Notably by Joe Seigh as part of his library.
> Also several posts by Dmitry and Chris.
> I also saw one by Rani Sharoni.
>
> Is there a consensus what's currently the best algorithm?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy.

Since the platform I care about is Linux, I think I could just use
futexes. I mean, futex is just an implementation of an event count.
Of course it's much more than that, but it can easily translate
itself to an event count. No?

Thanks,
     Andy.