atomicWriteIORef

[Carter Schonwald]

I conjecture, but might be wrong, that on a number of architectures, there
isn't a native  CAS  plus memory ordering stuff? eg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_ordering

on the other hand, it might be a simple oversight (in which case good
catch!)

i dont have SMP memory models properly digested well enough to say which
though

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 2:43 AM David Feuer <david.feuer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Currently, atomicWriteIORef is implemented using atomicModifyIORef. That
> seems pretty heavy for the job, allocating closures and forcing thunks. Is
> there a reason not to do it with casMutVar#?
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