atomic-primops: A safe approach to CAS and other atomic ops in Haskell.

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After GHC 7.4 a new casMutVar# primop became available, but it's difficult to use safely, because pointer equality is a highly unstable property in Haskell. This library provides a safer method based on the concept of Tickets. . Also, this library uses the "foreign primop" capability of GHC to add access to other variants that may be of interest, specifically, compare and swap inside an array. . Note that as of GHC 7.8, the relevant primops have been included in GHC itself. This library is engineered to work pre- and post-GHC-7.8, while exposing the same interface.

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Dependencies base (>=4.8 && <5), ghc-prim, primitive [details]
Tested with ghc ==8.4.3, ghc ==8.2.2, ghc ==8.0.2, ghc ==7.10.3
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Ryan Newton
Maintainer rrnewton@gmail.com
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Home page https://github.com/rrnewton/haskell-lockfree/wiki
Bug tracker https://github.com/rrnewton/haskell-lockfree/issues
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/rrnewton/haskell-lockfree/(atomic-primops)
Uploaded by ryanglscott at 2024-06-20T20:33:01Z
Distributions Arch:0.8.7, FreeBSD:0.8, LTSHaskell:0.8.8, NixOS:0.8.8, Stackage:0.8.8
Reverse Dependencies 31 direct, 3841 indirect [details]
Downloads 47064 total (320 in the last 30 days)
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Last success reported on 2024-06-20 [all 1 reports]