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Re: atomic_swap()

From: Phil Bouchard <boost_at_[hidden]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:37:13 -0400
Ok thanks... and it is slow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63706623/why-are-clang-and-gcc-not-using-xchg-to-implement-stdswap

On 7/16/21 2:40 PM, Thiago Macieira via Std-Proposals wrote:
> On Friday, 16 July 2021 11:28:46 PDT Phil Bouchard via Std-Proposals wrote:
>> I just realized that swap() is not using the XCHG assembly instruction
>> at all. Maybe adding an atomic_swap() could achieve this?
> No, that won't work. You can't atomically swap two memory locations.
>
> If only one of the two variables needs to be atomically swapped, we already
> have a function for that, atomic_exchange().
>
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