Atomic Operations Composition in Go

  • > People sometimes think that the composition of atomics also magically becomes an atomic operation. But this is not the case.

    > var counter atomic.Int32

    > func increment() {

    > if counter.Load()%2 == 0 {

    > sleep(10)

    > counter.Add(1)

    > } else {

    > sleep(10)

    > counter.Add(2)

    > }

    > }

    Is "atomic operations composition" a real term? Or it's something like "monolithic microservice"? What does that even mean?

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