### Results for: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3340M CPU @ 2.70GHz Desktop with X session and so on g++ (Debian 4.9.0-7) 4.9.0: $ ./benchmark-atomic-costs volatile counter : took 0.0364336 seconds asm counter : took 0.0354201 seconds local atomic counter: took 0.115856 seconds atomic counter : took 0.109317 seconds lock asm counter : took 0.10941 seconds gxx atomic counter : took 0.00511474 seconds $ ./benchmark-atomic-costs-pthread volatile counter : took 0.046696 seconds asm counter : took 0.032943 seconds local atomic counter: took 0.110129 seconds atomic counter : took 0.113985 seconds lock asm counter : took 0.112622 seconds gxx atomic counter : took 0.116294 seconds $ ./benchmark-shared-unique forward empty raw : took 0.163969 seconds forward empty unique : took 0.218807 seconds forward empty shared : took 0.225812 seconds forward empty shared from unique : took 2.52871 seconds forward new raw : took 1.82205 seconds forward new unique : took 1.8615 seconds forward new shared : took 2.19361 seconds forward new shared from unique : took 3.95392 seconds forward new raw large : took 5.14495 seconds forward new unique large : took 5.23506 seconds forward new shared large : took 5.87016 seconds forward new shared large from unique: took 6.18217 seconds Debian clang version 3.4.1-4 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final) (based on LLVM 3.4.1) $ ./benchmark-atomic-costs volatile counter : took 0.0437534 seconds asm counter : took 0.0361374 seconds local atomic counter: took 0.109093 seconds atomic counter : took 0.113311 seconds lock asm counter : took 0.109895 seconds gxx atomic counter : took 0.0319929 seconds $ ./benchmark-atomic-costs-pthread volatile counter : took 0.0450114 seconds asm counter : took 0.0318996 seconds local atomic counter: took 0.111068 seconds atomic counter : took 0.111992 seconds lock asm counter : took 0.111562 seconds gxx atomic counter : took 0.109874 seconds $ ./benchmark-shared-unique forward empty raw : took 0.166105 seconds forward empty unique : took 0.240787 seconds forward empty shared : took 0.245272 seconds forward empty shared from unique : took 2.49887 seconds forward new raw : took 1.79765 seconds forward new unique : took 1.83338 seconds forward new shared : took 2.19426 seconds forward new shared from unique : took 4.12736 seconds forward new raw large : took 4.05395 seconds forward new unique large : took 4.16771 seconds forward new shared large : took 4.48802 seconds forward new shared large from unique: took 5.02169 seconds