[Haskell-cafe] Google Summer of Code - Lock-free data structures

[Gregory Collins]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com> wrote:

> The ByteArray versions will be more annoying, requiring more variations,
> but they are also less essential, because the user can always use
> ForeignPtr and bits-atomic in this case, and I believe for our concurrent
> data structures we want to store arbitrary pointers (hence casArray#).
>

This is true, although using bits-atomic does a function call (i.e the
calls are not inlined), which would be pretty bad for performance.

G
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Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
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