DIP 1024---Shared Atomics---Final Review

[rikki cattermole]

On 11/12/2019 4:55 AM, IGotD- wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 December 2019 at 15:26:02 UTC, Simen Kjærås wrote:
>>
>> There's nothing stopping you from implementing your own primitives for 
>> manipulating shared data in betterC - core.atomic is only mentioned 
>> because it's the standard library way to do it.
>>
>> -- 
>>   Simen
> 
> This is a problem with that OS dependent libraries aren't separated from 
> OS independent libraries. In the future the atomic library should be in 
> an OS independent part of the core library while those that depends on 
> an underlying OS should be in their own. In all we need a finer 
> granularity of the standard library depending on what the library 
> depends on. Future DIP needed for this.

As far as I know core.atomic is the only module in druntime that will 
operate without druntime.

(There is a few random functions that are not templated, but that I'm 
pretty sure is just an oversight).

I'm not including bindings in this description as it doesn't include any 
logic.