Locking data

[rikki cattermole]

On 24/05/2018 1:20 AM, Malte wrote:
> On Tuesday, 22 May 2018 at 21:45:07 UTC, IntegratedDimensions wrote:
>> an idea to lock data by removing the reference:
>>
>> class A
>> {
>>    Lockable!Data data;
>> }
>>
>> [...]
> 
> This sounds like you are looking for is an atomic swap. Afaik it doesn't 
> exist in the standard library. You could use asm for the XCHG, but that 
> would make your code x86 dependent.
> I think the easiest way would be to just use a mutex and tryLock.

What are you talking about? :p

http://dpldocs.info/experimental-docs/core.atomic.cas.1.html