Best way to get to CAS/fetch-and-add on unboxed vectors?

[Jan-Willem Maessen]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com> wrote:

> (3) The most invasive (but best for the user) change would be to extend
> the basic MVector interface to include notions of concurrency-related
> operations right inside the vector package (CAS, etc).  But they should
> still probably go in a separate class (not class MVector), just because
> they will be specific to Unboxed and Storable vectors rather than boxed
> ones....
>

Any reason we shouldn't be able to CAS on boxed vectors?  Every
architecture supports a pointer-sized CAS.  What "equality" means for CAS,
of course, has to be rather carefully defined, but that's equally true for
the unboxed types.

-Jan


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