An auto-resizing table of {@code longs}, supporting low-contention CAS operations. Updates are done with CAS's to no particular table element. The intent is to support highly scalable counters, r/w locks, and other structures where the updates are associative, loss-free (no-brainer), and otherwise happen at such a high volume that the cache contention for CAS'ing a single word is unacceptable.
This API is overkill for simple counters (e.g. no need for the 'mask') and is untested as an API for making a scalable r/w lock and so is likely to change!
@since 1.5
@author Cliff Click