Users are assured a high-quality recording result due to the built-in lock down panels that secure the recording setting switches and media door from accidental changes in-the-field.

You might recall the graphs from last month's column showing how throughput can drop dramatically once multiple threads contend for a built-in monitor lock using synchronization.

In this article, you use the GCC built-ins in your implementation of lock-free data structures. Here's a look at the built-ins.