Compare-and-swap
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Compare-and-swap - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Atomic computer processor instruction In computer science , compare-and-swap ( CAS ) is an atomic instruction used in multithreading to achieve synchronization. It compares the contents of a memory location with a given (the previous) value and, only if they are the same, modifies the contents of that memory location to a new given value. This is done as a single atomic operation. The atomicity guarantees that the new value is calculated based on up-to-date information; if the value had been updated by another t
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