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bcoates
on June 27, 2012
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MySQL is bazillion times faster than MemSQL
That shouldn't be any harder than updating one pointer atomically, modern x64s have two-pointer sized atomic exchange operations.
tintor
on June 27, 2012
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Modern x64s have 128-bit CAS instruction, but the problem is that those two pointers can be far apart in memory, in two different elements of the list.
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