On 7/6/05, Siegfried Heintze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I assume that an auto-increment operation on an integer value is atomic > (that is, cannot be interrupted by another thread)? This is a common > assumption in C/C++. The perl debugger I use leads me to believe that perl > stores all integers as strings however, in spite of my efforts to force them > to integer by adding zero. > > This would mean that an auto-increment is probably not atomic. > > What about a string copy: is that atomic?
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