[Libre-soc-bugs] [Bug 236] Atomics Standard writeup needed

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https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236

--- Comment #25 from Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton from comment #23)
> a reaaomable justification is needed as to why 8 and 16 bit is to be
> proposed.
> neither Power nor RISCV have them.  what data structures and algorithms
> specifically benefit?

off the top of my head, a very commonly-used (4.3M downloads per month) Rust
mutex library uses 8-bit atomics for implementing their mutexes:

https://lib.rs/crates/parking_lot

i'm sure there're many more.

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