ASpinlockMutex Class Reference

Synchronization primitive that is implemented with atomic values instead of doing syscalls. More...

Detailed Description

Synchronization primitive that is implemented with atomic values instead of doing syscalls.

In contrast to a regular mutex, threads will busy-wait (infinitely check for unlocked state) and waste CPU cycles instead of yielding the CPU to another thread with a syscall.

ASpinlockMutex may be faster than a regular mutex in some cases. Use benchmarks to compare.

Public Member Functions
void	lock ()
bool	try_lock () noexcept
	Tries to acquire the mutex without blocking. More...
void	unlock () noexcept

Member Function Documentation

try_lock()

bool ASpinlockMutex::try_lock ( )

inlinenoexcept

Tries to acquire the mutex without blocking.

Returns

true if the mutex is successfully acquired, false otherwise.

#include <AUI/Thread/AMutex.h>

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• aui.core/src/AUI/Thread/AMutex.h