Re: [Pharo-dev] Lock-free Atomic Counter ?

Thanks guys for all the answers, I think I am going to stick with the simple code and no protection based on the arguments that I read. It will do for my application where nothing catastrophic will happen when in case of a clash. On 03 Apr 2014, at 00:11, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:

Hi,

Is it possible to have a simple lock-free atomic counter in Pharo 3.0 ?

nextId ^ idCounter := idCounter + 1

Or is it still possible that two process entering this code can mess things up ?

I vaguely remember a discussion about that long ago...

TIA,

Sven