When I say synchronization, I specifically mean "writes are guaranteed to be seen by subsequent reads on any thread*" *as Alex said.
On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 9:37:09 AM UTC-4, Brent Millare wrote: > > So to summarize, Clojure's volatile provides synchronization across > threads but does not provide atomaticity with vswap!. So, as a follow up > question, then why would the creation of a volatile be "dangerous" but > creating an atom isn't? (Hence the exclamation point in the name > "volatile!") > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
