Proposal: Add an atomic IORef replacement operation

[David Feuer]

Currently, atomicWriteIORef is implemented using atomicModifyIORef. This is
not ideal: the latter allocates memory while the former shouldn't need to.
In the process of writing alternative implementations, I realized that we
can efficiently support an atomic operation that replaces the value in an
IORef, returning the previous value. I propose that we add, to Data.IORef,
a function to do so:

atomicReplaceIORef :: IORef a -> a -> IO a

[Dr.Koster]

+1, BTW. let's call it atomicSwapIORef to keep sync with MVar/TVar's counterpart.


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From: David Feuer <***@gmail.com>
Date: Sat,Jun 23,2018 4:15 PM
To: Haskell Libraries <***@haskell.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: Add an atomic IORef replacement operation



Currently, atomicWriteIORef is implemented using atomicModifyIORef. This is not ideal: the latter allocates memory while the former shouldn't need to. In the process of writing alternative implementations, I realized that we can efficiently support an atomic operation that replaces the value in an IORef, returning the previous value. I propose that we add, to Data.IORef, a function to do so:

atomicReplaceIORef :: IORef a -> a -> IO a

[David Feuer]

Yes, you're absolutely right about the name. My proposal is thus amended.

Post by Dr.Koster
+1, BTW. let's call it atomicSwapIORef to keep sync with MVar/TVar's counterpart.
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*Date:* Sat,Jun 23,2018 4:15 PM
*Subject:* Re: Proposal: Add an atomic IORef replacement operation
Currently, atomicWriteIORef is implemented using atomicModifyIORef. This
is not ideal: the latter allocates memory while the former shouldn't need
to. In the process of writing alternative implementations, I realized that
we can efficiently support an atomic operation that replaces the value in
an IORef, returning the previous value. I propose that we add, to
atomicReplaceIORef :: IORef a -> a -> IO a