Deprecation: Read-modify-write operations are not allowed for shared variables

[Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 15:06:38 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
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> besides, using atomic operations will allow you to drop 
> synchronize altogether which makes your code slightly faster.

... and potentially quite broken.  At the very least, if this 
value is ready anywhere you'll have to use an atomicLoad there in 
place of the synchronized block you would have used.