shared - i need it to be useful
NX
nightmarex1337 at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 17 20:01:35 UTC 2018
I don't see any problem with this proposal as long as these
points hold:
- Shared <-> Unshared is never implicit, either requiring an
explicit cast (both ways) or having a language support which
allows the conversion gracefully.
- Shared methods are called by compiler if the type is shared or
if there is no unshared equivalent.
- Programmer needs to guarantee that shared -> unshared
cast/conversion is thread-safe by hand; such as acquiring a lock,
atomic operations...
- Programmer needs to guarantee that when unshared -> shared
cast/conversion happens, data is not accessed through unshared
reference during the lifetime of shared reference(s). Effectively
this means a data needs to be treated as shared everywhere at the
same time otherwise all things fall apart.
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