May 8, 2015 · In the Effective Java book, it states: The language specification guarantees that reading or writing a variable is atomic unless the variable is of type long or double [JLS, 17.4.7]. What do...

Aug 13, 2015 · Objects of atomic types are the only C++ objects that are free from data races; that is, if one thread writes to an atomic object while another thread reads from it, the behavior is well-defined. …

Oct 20, 2014 · Why the standard make that difference? It seems as both designate, in the same way, an atomic type.

Jan 6, 2012 · std::atomic is new feature introduced by c++11 but I can't find much tutorial on how to use it correctly. So are the following practice common and efficient? One practice I used is we have a buff...

Sep 18, 2023 · Fortunately, the value initializing constructor of an integral atomic is constexpr, so the above leads to constant initialization. Otherwise you'd want to make it -say- a static member of a …

Jun 4, 2014 · The definition of atomic is hazy; a value that is atomic in one application could be non-atomic in another. For a general guideline, a value is non-atomic if the application deals with only a …

Jul 29, 2013 · There are two atomic CAS operations in C++11: atomic_compare_exchange_weak and atomic_compare_exchange_strong. According to cppreference: The weak forms of the functions are …

Mar 27, 2013 · Can someone explain to me, whats the difference between atomic operations and atomic transactions? Its seems to me that these two are the same thing.Is that correct?

Jan 21, 2011 · In Java, the reading and writing of 32-bit or smaller quantities are guaranteed to be atomic. By atomic, we mean each action takes place in one step and cannot be interrupted. Thus, …

Aug 2, 2016 · I read this in the book C# 6.0 and the .NET 4.6 framework: “assignments and simple arithmetic operations are not atomic”. So, what does it exactly mean?