On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 12:32:50 -0800, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/9594a3ece38ca212023cf3ece7405d955303db13/src/core/asyncops.pm#L50 > > <jnthn> I thought I killed that off once > <jnthn> I did in 539b5f44ef3f pre-xmas > <jnthn> Because I thought it was pretty ridiculous having a non-atomic > CAS in there :/ > <jnthn> I made the mistake of tossing it with something else and it > seems it got restored later as if I did it by accident rather than by > quiet sleight of hand :P > <AlexDaniel> jnthn: can you take care of it now? :) > <jnthn> AlexDaniel: Well, we could actually do with a working cas... > :P > <jnthn> (A few things I'd like to do could use it) > <jnthn> So I'll probably just fix it sometime next year :) > <jnthn> AlexDaniel: Feel free, and mark it [CONC]; I watch the CONC > list for stuff to do :)
This got sorted out. There's now lots of tests that cas really does an atomic compare and swap (e.g. S17-lowlevel/cas.t).
