alt Hacker NewsAfter a quick glance, it seems that you don’t maintain the reading/writing status in the shared memory. That means you have to make a syacall in every read/write call. You could look into the kaze-core for an alternative implementation, which doesn’t require any syscall if possible.
Btw, kaze-core uses a `used` atomic variable, to avoid reading both readPos/writePos in routine - they are not atomic at all.
That is a fair assessment. Maintaining read/write pos and peek them at every operation is a big performance hit. The impact is amplified if each invocation needs a syscall. That is exactly what futexes address: Allowing spin locks to remain in user space and avoid entering the kernel as long as contention is low.
In JavaScript, atomic operations are relatively lightweight, so their overhead is likely acceptable. Given that, I am open to adjusting my code to your suggested approach and seeing how it performs in practice.