On Friday, 19 October 2018 at 18:00:47 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
Because int or int* does not have threadsafe member functions.
https://dlang.org/phobos/core_atomic.html
Atomic and thread-safe are two very different concepts.
Thread-safe is more of an ecosystem thing - if there are ways to
do non-thread-safe operations on something, atomic operations are
not enough to make things thread-safe. This is what core.atomic
does:
https://i.imgur.com/PnKMigl.jpg
If you close the other openings, atomics are fantastic building
blocks to making something thread-safe, but on their own they are
not enough.
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Simen
