Non-blocking array queue.

[Shammah Chancellor]

On 2014-03-08 19:58:01 +0000, Martin said:

> On Saturday, 8 March 2014 at 19:02:26 UTC, Shammah Chancellor wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm interesting in implementing a non-blocking queue.   My thought is 
>> to use a fixed-size array, and increment back of the queue with a 
>> integer.   I was thinking I could make this non-blocking via an atomic 
>> increment operation before assigning the pushed value onto the queue.   
>> So, my question is:   How would you do an atomic increment in a 
>> cross-platform way in D?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> -S.
> 
> I think you could use http://dlang.org/phobos/core_atomic.html, maybe?

I didn't see a way to get an an increment operation.   atomicOp doesn't 
seem to offer unitary operations.

-S.