/**
     * Atomically increments by one the current value.
     *
     * @return the updated value
     */
    public final long incrementAndGet() {
        for (;;) {
            long current = get();
            long next = current + 1;
            if (compareAndSet(current, next))
                return next;
        }
    }

/**
     * Atomically sets the value to the given updated value
     * if the current value {@code ==} the expected value.
     *
     * @param expect the expected value
     * @param update the new value
     * @return true if successful. False return indicates that
     * the actual value was not equal to the expected value.
     */
    public final boolean compareAndSet(long expect, long update) {
	return unsafe.compareAndSwapLong(this, valueOffset, expect, update);
    }