Re: [Vala] "vala friendly" atomic pointer

[Nor Jaidi Tuah <norjaidi tuah ubd edu bn>]

Thanks for the replies.

It seems that WeakRef doesn't help with the granularity:
multiple readers will lock out each other (I hope I'm
wrong here). Besides, from
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703996
it appears that WeakRef is totally broken.

As for HazardPointers, according to the documentation:
     HazardPointers are not thread-safe (unless documentation
     states otherwise)

I wish vala has "lockread" in addition to lock.


Nice day
Nor Jaidi Tuah






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