On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 8:05 PM Sotirios Mantziaris <smantzia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From what i understand you propose to create a new object and switch out the > old one with the new one using the atomic package of go. That cannot work. String is a multi word value. There's nothing in the atomic package that can update a multi word value. However, a pointer to anything _can_ be updated atomically. You cannot "safely" cheat on the data race. As said before, you must synchronize (the readers vs writers). There's no other option. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAA40n-XTGeeN%3D%3D7R7QMc22KMs_iTWgO4Z%3DWfqoKaFkftenY-7Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
