[erlang-questions] Lockfree now()

[Erik Søe Sørensen]

2012/7/12 Wojtek Narczyński <wojtek@REDACTED>

>  On 07/12/2012 02:58 PM, Erik Søe Sørensen wrote:
>
> When I implemented now() in Erjang, I found a lock-free algorithm for it
> which has the right "timestamp must be monotonically increasing" property.
>
>
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#now-0
> " It is also guaranteed that subsequent calls to this BIF returns
> continuously increasing values."
>
> I don't think your solution quarrantees this.
>
Why not? That's certainly the intention of the last part; latest_now should
always be updated in a increasing manner, and the return value of
ensure_monotonically_increasing_now() should always be equal to the new
value of latest_now.
Did I make a mistake?


>
> It can be implemented with N-bit CAS for N-bit time value.
>
> --Regards,
> Wojtek Narczynski
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