Re: No atomic read on MVar?

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Philip K.F. Hölzenspies <p.k.f.holzenspies@utwente.nl> wrote:

I have now implemented my variable as a pair of MVars, one of which serves as a lock on the other. Both for performance reasons and for deadlock analysis, I would really like an atomic read on MVars, though. Does it exist? If not, why not?

Have you considered using STM? All the operations on TMVars are atomic. -- Dave Menendez <dave@zednenem.com> <http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/>