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compiler-guy
on Oct 5, 2023
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There's No Such Thing as “Implicitly Atomic”
Anyone who writes a compiler for Go can guarantee such behavior--anything else is a buggy implementation.
It works in practice because it's a requirement of the implementation.
felixge
on Oct 5, 2023
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I guess I’m less worried about the atomic nature of the operation and more about the way the writes become visible. That seems to be entirely hardware dependent?
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It works in practice because it's a requirement of the implementation.