atomicx

Overview ¶

Package atomicx contains atomic extensions. The main reason for rolling out this package is to avoid potential crashes when using 32 bit devices where we are atomically accessing a 64 bit variable that is not aligned. The solution to this issue is rather crude: use a normal variable and protect it using a normal mutex. While this could be disappointing in general, it seems fine to be done in our context where we mainly use atomic semantics for counting.