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Closes #32

Also further notes that the proposal cannot be high-fidelity polyfilled
because the "fail fast synchronously" semantics cannot be correctly
polyfilled on top of Atomics.wait.
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## Polyfills

(NOTE: The current polyfill is out of date.)
(NOTE: The current polyfill is out of date and no longer maintained. Further,
the proposal cannot be polyfilled in a high-fidelity manner using
`Atomics.wait`, because there is no atomics way to synchronously handle the
`"not-equal"` case.)

A simple polyfill is possible.

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Champions: Shu-yu Guo (Google) and Lars T Hansen (Mozilla).

## Historical documents

Warning: The following documents are no longer being updated and are of
historical interest only.

See [PROPOSAL.md](PROPOSAL.md) for the evolving proposal text,
[polyfill.js](polyfill.js) for a simple polyfill implementation, and
[example.html](example.html) for some examples and test cases; this
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