> Atomics are very expensive operations.
Atomics are very expensive when contended - which is also the case where locks would introduce blocking and reduced performance. Uncontended atomics are relatively cheap.
Atomics are very expensive when contended - which is also the case where locks would introduce blocking and reduced performance. Uncontended atomics are relatively cheap.
We've gotten our ThreadPool barrier+wait to use only acq/rel, but not yet the work stealing. Does anyone have experience with that already?