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Subject: Re: high frequency time stamping (Was: Simple Components 4.12 with
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On 19.04.16 14:43, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> It is a value and a time stamp, because data are oversampled. There is
> no way a conventional OS could respond to each change at this rate.

Is it possible to have a volatile variable T representing
some point in time and a CAS discipline so that

1. there is one task that updates T at regular intervals and

2. another task that reads T for stamping items more frequently
    than the first would write updates?