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Single Threaded Summation: Protection with Atomics

Single Threaded Summation: Protection with Atomics

This lesson explains the solution for calculating the sum of a vector problem using atomics in C++.

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Accordingly, I have the same questions for atomics that I had for locks.

  1. How expensive is the synchronization of an atomic?
  2. How fast can an atomic be if there is no contention?

I have an additional ...