Re: Using mutable array after an unsafeFreezeArray, and GC details

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Brandon Simmons wrote:

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote:

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Any chance you could try to use storable or unboxed vectors?

Yeah, I'd thought about a variant for Storables, but it didn't seem like it would be a win on paper (probably requiring a CAS on one unboxed array, a loadLoadBarrier, and a second write to a different

Sorry s/loadLoadBarrier/writeBarrier/ i.e. write_barrier() from SMP.h By the way, I'm playing with concurrent FIFO queue designs, I realized I haven't mentioned!

unboxed array), but it would probably be worth playing with in light of this issue. Thanks for the suggestion!

Brandon