Use proper atomics and ref counting #807
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Prefer __atomic_compare_exchange_n over __sync_bool_compare_and_swap.
I chose weak because we are looping and reading the value of old_value constantly anyway, so it would be better to have it weak.
Otherwise, it is equivalent to what it was before.