Just released this. Synths play without bugs now. It might be the best release for songwriting yet. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50173909 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Hey r/programming ! I wrote a comprehensive article on constructing a mutex from scratch. It covers: - Data races: what happens at the register level, and how parallel access can go wrong - Atomics & Memory Ordering: why atomics work and what each memory ordering does (Aq/Rel/AqRel/SeqCst) - Spin lock & Guards: Building a simple mutual exclusion lock via an AtomicBool, and providing safe access to the protected data - And finally, Mutexes: A more complex mutual exclusion primitive that can achieve better performance via thread::park/::unpark The article benchmarks and compares the performance…