Modernizing atomics

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Ashod Nakashian <ashnakash at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure which horror you are referring to (surely you meant 'our', for the
> collective codebase).

Yes, I meant 'our', sorry.

>
> on Windows and if it improves things in the profiler, I'll submit a patch
> for consideration.
> I think it's a trivial change that can have some improvement in performance
> (however small) without much risk.

Yep. it should be a measurable improvement...

Norbert