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Atomic operations on basic numeric (and pointer) types can be used as a foundation to build higher level construct (e.g. mutexes.) There are also useful on their own (e.g. to implement an atomic counter.) This page outlines a design for adding atomic primops.
Atomic operations on basic numeric (and pointer) types can be used as a foundation to build higher level construct (e.g. mutexes.) There are also useful on their own (e.g. to implement an atomic counter.) This page outlines a design for adding atomic primops.
