At 16:17 15/03/01 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
>Lost data is probably better than incorrect data. Either use locks
>or a copying mechanism. People will depend on the data returned
>making sense.
>
But with per-backend data, there is only ever *one* writer to a given set
of counters. Everyone else is a reader.
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