How are D atomics? [was: Low-Lock Singletons In D]

[Manu]

At least the code looks complete.
It's a shame it uses inline asm though. Would be much nicer to implement
via intrinsics.


On 23 May 2013 10:17, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 07 May 2013 15:58:34 -0400, Dmitry Olshansky <
> dmitry.olsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  07-May-2013 17:25, Andrei Alexandrescu пишет:
>>
>
>  No. A tutorial on memory consistency models would be too long to insert
>>> here. I don't know of a good online resource, does anyone?
>>>
>>>
>> Sutter's Mill is a good starting point even though it's C++ biased.
>>
>> Two recent insightful talks on C++11 memory model with down and dirty
>> details:
>>
>> http://herbsutter.com/2013/02/**11/atomic-weapons-the-c-**
>> memory-model-and-modern-**hardware/<http://herbsutter.com/2013/02/11/atomic-weapons-the-c-memory-model-and-modern-hardware/>
>>
>
> I finally got around to watching this.  Absolutely mind-blowing, and a
> very very good talk.  This is what I would point people at, although it is
> a bit long (and necessarily so).  Didn't seem like it took 3 hours :)
>
> I take back all my arguments regarding the previous discussion, they were
> all wrong, along with my concept of the "issues" with out-of-order
> reads/writes.  I really like how Herb explains that it doesn't really
> matter where the re-ordering happens, to the coder, it's all the same (as
> if the source code is reordered), and how you can't ever really reason
> about code if it has races.
>
> Is D prepared to do (or does it do?) the same things that C/C++11 does
> with atomics?  It seems it is a necessity.  The docs on core.atomic are,
> well, actually missing: http://dlang.org/phobos/core_**atomic.html<http://dlang.org/phobos/core_atomic.html>
>
> -Steve
>
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