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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ The library contains the implementations of the following containers:
   - several algo for lock-free queue, including classic Michael & Scott algorithm and its derivatives,
     the flat combining queue, the segmented queue.
   - several implementation of unordered set/map - lock-free and fine-grained lock-based
-  - [flat-combining] (http://mcg.cs.tau.ac.il/projects/projects/flat-combining) technique
+  - [flat-combining](http://mcg.cs.tau.ac.il/projects/projects/flat-combining) technique
   - lock-free [skip-list](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_list)
   - lock-free FeldmanHashMap/Set [Multi-Level Array Hash](http://samos-conference.com/Resources_Samos_Websites/Proceedings_Repository_SAMOS/2013/Files/2013-IC-20.pdf)
     with thread-safe bidirectional iterator support
@@ -33,17 +33,29 @@ The library contains the implementations of the following containers:
 Generally, each container has an intrusive and non-intrusive (STL-like) version belonging to 
 *cds::intrusive* and *cds::container* namespace respectively. 
 
-Version 2.x of the library is written on C++11 and can be compiled by GCC 4.8+, clang 3.3+, Intel C++ 15+, 
-and MS VC++ 12 (2013) Update 4.
+Version 2.x of the library is written on C++11 and can be compiled by GCC 4.8+, clang 3.6+, Intel C++ 15+, 
+and MS VC++ 12 (2013) Update 4 and above
 
 Download the latest release from http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcds/files/
 
 See online doxygen-generated doc here: http://libcds.sourceforge.net/doc/cds-api/index.html
 
+Evolution of libcds (Gource visualization by Landon Wilkins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHaJvVdmJ0w
+
 **How to build**
    - *nix: [use CMake](build/cmake/readme.md)
    - Windows: use MS Visual C++ 2015 project
 
+Some parts of libcds may depend on DCAS (double-width compare-and-swap) atomic primitive if
+the target architecture supports it. For x86, cmake build script enables `-mcx16` compiler flag that
+switches DCAS support on. You may manually disable DCAS support with the following command line flags
+in GCC/clang (for MS VC++ compiler DCAS is not supported):
+  - `-DCDS_DISABLE_128BIT_ATOMIC` - for 64bit build
+  - `-DCDS_DISABLE_64BIT_ATOMIC` - for 32bit build
+
+**All your projects AND libcds MUST be compiled with the same flags - either with DCAS support or without it.**
+   
+   
 **Pull request requirements**
 - Pull-request to *master* branch will be unconditionally rejected
 - *integration* branch is intended for pull-request. Usually, *integration* branch is the same as *master*
@@ -78,8 +90,6 @@ References
   - *SegmentedQueue*: [2010] Afek, Korland, Yanovsky "Quasi-Linearizability: relaxed consistency for improved concurrency"
         [pdf](http://mcg.cs.tau.ac.il/papers/opodis2010-quasi.pdf)
   - *FCQueue* - flat-combining wrapper for *std::queue*
-  - *TsigasCycleQueue*: [2000] Philippas Tsigas, Yi Zhang "A Simple, Fast and Scalable Non-Blocking Concurrent FIFO Queue for Shared Memory Multiprocessor Systems"
-        [pdf](http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~tsigas/papers/latest-spaa01.pdf)
   - *VyukovMPMCCycleQueue* Dmitry Vyukov (see http://www.1024cores.net)
 
 *Deque*
@@ -130,10 +140,6 @@ References
              Implementations of Read-Copy Update"
              [pdf](http://www.dorsal.polymtl.ca/sites/www.dorsal.polymtl.ca/files/publications/desnoyers-ieee-urcu-submitted.pdf)
 
-*Memory allocation*
-  - [2004] M.Michael "Scalable Lock-free Dynamic Memory Allocation"
-            [pdf](http://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/michael/pldi-2004.pdf)
-
 *Flat Combining* technique
   - [2010] Hendler, Incze, Shavit and Tzafrir "Flat Combining and the Synchronization-Parallelism Tradeoff"
             [pdf](http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~hendlerd/papers/flat-combining.pdf)