This should be validated by benchmarking.

Andrei

On 8/27/10 7:45 PDT, David Simcha wrote:
IIRC (maybe this has changed recently) atomic increments in core.atomic
are based on CAS instructions in a while loop, which is how more generic
lock free primitives are made.  Atomic increment should be special cased
to directly use lock; inc [someRegister];.

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Sean Kelly <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    On Aug 27, 2010, at 7:11 AM, David Simcha wrote:
     >
     >>
     >> I see you have some CAS instructions. Sean, I think it's a good
    time to collaborate with David to put them into druntime or
    std.concurrency.
     >
     > Yeah, D needs a real atomics library.  core.atomic is a good
    start, but I won't use it until it can efficiently do things like
    atomic increment.

    How could it be made more efficient?
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