ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby

Document what "memory model" guarantees each Atomic method provides

Closed this issue 3 years ago · 5 comments

pitr-ch commented 10 years ago

Document what "memory model" guarantees each Atomic method provides

pitr-ch commented 10 years ago

Follow up of ruby-concurrency/atomic#2

pitr-ch commented 10 years ago

It looks like the C code uses a full memory barrier, see https://github.com/ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby/blob/master/ext/concurrent/atomic_reference.c#L29-L38

jdantonio commented 9 years ago

@pitr-ch Has this been handled as part of the documentation of the synchronization layer?

pitr-ch commented 9 years ago

it was not. I'll add something quickly.

chrisseaton commented 3 years ago

I think the memory model is out of scope. It hasn't yet been adopted by Core.