Talk:cpp/atomic/atomic fetch add

I appreciate that it's not exactly the point of the article, but can someone please explain ''Note that this simplistic implementation is not lockout-free ''?

As with so many concurrent programming issues, it's not clear just from the source.

81.157.200.209 06:43, 26 May 2016 (PDT)
 * it's saying that readers can lock out (starve) the writer: comment out the pauses and the writer will not make progress even though the readers will. --Cubbi (talk) 07:59, 26 May 2016 (PDT)