On 04/01/2014 02:32 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > What do people feel about my proposal? Do you think it improves writing > and reviewing thread safe code to be less error prone?
As I said in the bug, not particularly. I don't think you can program with atomics in any sort of brain-off way, and I don't think the boilerplate difference of += versus fetch-and-add or whatever really affects that. To the extent things should be done differently, it should be that *template* functions that deal with atomic/non-atomic versions of the same algorithm deserve extra review and special care, and perhaps even should be implemented twice, rather than sharing a single implementation. And I think the cases in question here are flavors of approximately a single issue, and we do not have a fundamental problem here to be solved by making the API more obtuse in practice. Jeff _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
