digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 12891] New: add atomicInc and atomicDec to core.atomic
- via Digitalmars-d-bugs (17/17) Jun 11 2014 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12891
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12891 Issue ID: 12891 Summary: add atomicInc and atomicDec to core.atomic Product: D Version: unspecified Hardware: x86_64 OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P1 Component: druntime Assignee: nobody puremagic.com Reporter: code dawg.eu At least on the X86 architecture atomic increments/decrements can be done way more efficient using specialized instruction which are not used by the more generic atomicOp. --
Jun 11 2014