Atomic ets

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Mats Cronqvist <mats.cronqvist@REDACTED> writes:

> (*) in some cases, such as in the original question, you can serialize
> through a server (which will slow you down some).
>    sometimes i've resorted to this nasty hack;
> 
> erlang:yield(),
> foo(),
> bla().
> 
>    which'll (probably) make foo and bla atomic (at least as long as
> the vm uses reduction counting)

And as long the Erlang emulator can not run more than one Erlang process,
which is no longer true in the SMP-enabled emulator in R11B.

/Bjorn
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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB