[bind10-dev] numeric/integer size on CC channel

[Francis Dupont]

> Also, I'm not sure if it's faster to use the (sometimes very slow) atomic
> instructions, or one mutex for all the counters at once.

=> it is an implementation detail and on most architectures it doesn't
make a real difference, in particular in favor of the mutex, between
a 64 atomic increment and a write mutex (or a 64 read and a read mutex).

Regards

Francis Dupont <fdupont at isc.org>