Oct. 12, 2010
2:14 p.m.
On 12 October 2010 17:07, Lukas Renggli <renggli@gmail.com> wrote:
To swap two values, you usually do:
| var1 var2 temp |
temp := var1. var1 := var2. var2 := temp.
But since its non-atomic, a process can be interrupted and such operation is not thread-safe.
As far as I know the VM only preempts on back-jumps and message sends. None of that exists in your code snipped, so it should be atomic. No?
This is a bit blurry. I remember Eliot said it is no longer true under Cog VM.
Lukas
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