Locking data

[rikki cattermole]

On 24/05/2018 1:29 AM, Malte wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 at 13:24:35 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>> 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
> 
> That is Compare-and-set.
> To make an exchange using cas I first have to read the value, then write 
> to it expecting to be still the value I read before. That are more 
> instructions than just a swap. If a cas fails, I have to redo 
> everything. An exchange never fails, I just might not get the result I 
> would like to have (null instead of pointer).

So you want a load + store as swap in a single function (that is optimized).
In that case, please create an issue on bugzilla (issues.dlang.org).