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- What does atomic mean in programming? - Stack Overflow
"An operation acting on shared memory is atomic if it completes in a single step relative to other threads When an atomic store is performed on a shared memory, no other thread can observe the modification half-complete When an atomic load is performed on a shared variable, it reads the entire value as it appeared at a single moment in time "
- What are atomic operations for newbies? - Stack Overflow
Here, each upsert is atomic: the first one left count at 2, the second one left it at 3 Everything works Note that "atomic" is contextual: in this case, the upsert operation only needs to be atomic with respect to operations on the answers table in the database; the computer can be free to do other things as long as they don't affect (or are
- atomic operations and atomic transactions - Stack Overflow
Atomic Operations on the other hand are usually associated with low-level programming with regards to multi-processing or multi-threading applications and are similar to Critical Sections For example, if two threads both access and modify the same variable, each thread goes through the following steps:
- java - Practical uses for AtomicInteger - Stack Overflow
For instance getAndIncrement() is an atomic equivalent to i++ which is not atomic because it is actually a short cut for three operations: retrieval, addition and assignation compareAndSet is very useful to implements semaphores, locks, latches, etc Using the AtomicInteger is faster and more readable than performing the same using
- sql - What is atomicity in dbms - Stack Overflow
The definition of atomic is hazy; a value that is atomic in one application could be non-atomic in another For a general guideline, a value is non-atomic if the application deals with only a part of the value Eg: The current Wikipedia article on First NF (Normal Form) section Atomicity actually quotes from the introductory parts above
- What are atomic types in the C language? - Stack Overflow
The type sig_atomic_t is always an integer data type, but which one it is, and how many bits it contains, may vary from machine to machine Data Type: sig_atomic_t This is an integer data type Objects of this type are always accessed atomically In practice, you can assume that int is atomic You can also assume that pointer types are atomic
- Regex lookahead, lookbehind and atomic groups - Stack Overflow
A non-atomic group will allow backtracking; if subsequent matching ahead fails, it will backtrack and use alternative patterns until a match for the entire expression is found or all possibilities are exhausted (foo|foot)s applied to foots will:
- R Error in x$ed : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors
Because $ does not work on atomic vectors Use [or [[instead From the help file for $: The default methods work somewhat differently for atomic vectors, matrices arrays and for recursive (list-like, see is recursive) objects $ is only valid for recursive objects, and is only discussed in the section below on recursive objects
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