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From: "Ben Peart" <peartben@gmail.com>
To: "'git'" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Jeff Hostetler \(jeffhost@microsoft.com\)" 
	<Jeff.Hostetler@microsoft.com>,
	"Ben Peart" <benpeart@microsoft.com>
Subject: Safe to use stdatomic.h?
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:18:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000801d2a1b7$1ec41620$5c4c4260$@gmail.com> (raw)

My college Jeff is working on a patch series to further parallelize the
loading of the index.  As part of that patch, it would be nice to use the
atomic_fetch_add function as that would be more efficient than creating a
mutex simply to protect a variable so that it can be incremented.  I haven't
seen any use of atomics yet in Git, nor anything that includes
<stdatomic.h>.

GCC has supported them since 4.9 and Clang has supported them by default
since 3.3.  Are there any compilers currently in use by Git that don't
support these C11 functions?

Thanks,

Ben



             reply	other threads:[~2017-03-20 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-20 20:18 Ben Peart [this message]
2017-03-20 20:27 ` Safe to use stdatomic.h? Jeff King
2017-03-20 23:22 ` brian m. carlson
2017-03-21  1:59   ` Eric Wong

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