Improve the ergonomics of core.atomic
IGotD-
nise at nise.com
Thu Oct 1 13:27:46 UTC 2020
Currently the core.atomic library just adds template functions
for atomic operations and not a special atomic type. This forces
the programmer to use long a rather ugly template operations
through out the entire code.
Typically
atomicOp!"+="(v1, v2);
This is nice for casual atomic operations but ugly and a pain for
many atomic operations.
Why hasn't D just like C++ an atomic type. In C++ you simply
declare.
std::atomic<int> var;
and then use the operator overload.
var += 1;
which will trickle down to var.fetch_add(1);
This makes much nicer in the code. Also if you want swap between
non atomic operations and atomic operations, you have to change
less.
What D needs is just like in C++ an atomic template type.
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