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Re:Migrating an SQLite based django app to PostgreSQL by wheels on Thursday March 26, 2009 @10:43AM (#533512)
Because there are no POSIX APIs for bare atomic reference counting. Presumably pthreads implementations do implement atomic reference counting in assembly, it's just not exposed through the API. For more on Linux see:

  man futex

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