Re: [swift-evolution] [pitch] Atomics

> On Feb 23, 2017, at 1:44 PM, Guillaume Lessard via swift-evolution > wrote: > > There is no clean way to use atomic operations in Swift at the moment, even > less so after most of OSAtomic.h was deprecated in Sierra. Of course, the > OSAtomic calls were never

Re: [swift-evolution] [pitch] Atomics

Huge +1, and for the prototype as well. Atomic.Bool and Atomic.RawPointer would also be truly appreciated. An Atomic a la C++ would be even better but I don't know if we'd want to tie ourselves to that. I like the LLVM names for MemoryOrder et. al. better than the C std. ones, in general, and

Re: [swift-evolution] [pitch] Atomics

+1 But I would also suggest using Int instead of Int64 in public interface. > On Feb 23, 2017, at 23:44, Guillaume Lessard via swift-evolution > wrote: > > There is no clean way to use atomic operations in Swift at the moment, even > less so after most of

[swift-evolution] [pitch] Atomics

There is no clean way to use atomic operations in Swift at the moment, even less so after most of OSAtomic.h was deprecated in Sierra. Of course, the OSAtomic calls were never available in Linux, so there are no atomics at all on that side. It's technically possible to wrap clang’s C11 atomics