atomic-primops
Version 0.8.8 revision 0 uploaded by ryanglscott.
Package meta
- Synopsis
- A safe approach to CAS and other atomic ops in Haskell.
- Description
After GHC 7.4 a new casMutVar# primop became available, but it's difficult to use safely, because pointer equality is a highly unstable property in Haskell. This library provides a safer method based on the concept of Tickets. . Also, this library uses the "foreign primop" capability of GHC to add access to other variants that may be of interest, specifically, compare and swap inside an array. . Note that as of GHC 7.8, the relevant primops have been included in GHC itself. This library is engineered to work pre- and post-GHC-7.8, while exposing the same interface.
- Author
- Ryan Newton
- Bug reports
- https://github.com/rrnewton/haskell-lockfree/issues
- Category
- Data
- Copyright
- n/a
- Homepage
- https://github.com/rrnewton/haskell-lockfree/wiki
- Maintainer
- rrnewton@gmail.com
- Package URL
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- Stability
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