[swift-users] Any equivalent to Java's AtomicInteger?

[Hooman Mehr]

Standard library source code already includes internal atomic counters. Introducing these apparently is on the agenda but post Swift 4.0 as part of a general language level support for concurrency. For now, the preferred API for such things is GCD (Grand Central Dispatch) provided through Dispatch module on macOS and Linux. 

> On Nov 21, 2016, at 7:55 PM, Rick Mann via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> A lot of architectures provide CPU support for atomic increment and the like. <stdatomic.h> does, too, but most of it is unavailable in Xcode 8.1.
> 
> Is there a Swift AtomicInteger? Is that worth adding to the language?
> 
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> Rick Mann
> rmann at latencyzero.com
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