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Counting Fast in Erlang with:counters and:atomics

80 pointsby malmzlast Saturday at 8:26 AM4 commentsview on HN

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dnauticsyesterday at 8:37 PM

hm, last i checked counters were fully implemented as atomics, it seems now theres another internal bif for "write concurrency", is this new or was it always like this and did i just miss it?

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schultzeryesterday at 11:08 PM

What we really need is an atomic_term :)