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by levodelellis 492 days ago
Has anyone told you to never use atomics? Have you not heard lockless programming is hard? (I saw this recently https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/CategoryAtomic,) Have you written multi-threaded programs? I written two large ones. The fact you're suggesting non-experts use atomic is insanity. As well as criticizing 'overflow' in an article showing minimum easy to understand code to be read by people using completely different languages