On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 19:51:00 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 18:57:16 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
Perhaps I missed it from skimming, but why are we using atomic
operations here anyway? Has testing revealed that it's
necessary?
I presume you don't mean running some code and then seeing if
it breaks as a test to see if atomic operation are necessary?
Synchronisation *must* be done by design.
Well sure, but why not use a Mutex? What does trying to sort out
a correct lock-free algorithm gain us here?
