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. …

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...

Apr 30, 2016 · I remember I came across certain types in the C language called atomic types, but we have never studied them. So, how do they differ from regular types like int,float,double,long etc., and …

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

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 …

The reason num++ appears to be atomic is because on x86 machines, incrementing a 32-bit integer is, in fact, atomic (assuming no memory retrieval takes place). But this is neither guaranteed by the c++ …

But rename() is still atomic in a very important sense: if you use it to overwrite a file, then you will end up with either the old or the new version and nothing else. [update: but as @jonas-wielicki points out in …

Jan 26, 2023 · 7 In this question, it was explained how to add to a concurrent ThreadSafe collection Powershell: How to add Result to an Array (ForEach-Object -Parallel) I have a simpler use case , …

Jul 31, 2012 · Is there a systematic way to know whether an operation in C# will be atomic or not? Or are there any general guidelines or rules of thumb?

Aug 7, 2014 · i++ is probably not atomic in Java because atomicity is a special requirement which is not present in the majority of the uses of i++. That requirement has a significant overhead: there is a …