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runtime: special case chan struct{} #8902

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dvyukov opened this issue Oct 7, 2014 · 1 comment

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dvyukov commented Oct 7, 2014

chan struct{} is commonly used for semaphores.
We can special case it in runtime as atomic counter. Then common case (of no work
limiting) will be just atomicinc/atomicdec.

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rsc commented Oct 7, 2014

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I would like to see a demonstrated need for a faster implementation first.

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