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-r1 (atomic-primops-0.7-r1) 2015-01-16T03:45:12Z RyanNewton 99594a0f7b2fd268f7f68e460218c22bda9da07c559fb5ead6d3c508f01d9cff
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    After GHC 7.4 a new `casMutVar#` primop became available, but it's
    difficult to use safely, because pointer equality is a highly
    unstable property in Haskell.  This library provides a safer method
    based on the concept of "Tickets".
    
    Also, this library uses the "foreign primop" capability of GHC to
    add access to other variants that may be of
    interest, specifically, compare and swap inside an array.
    
    Note that as of GHC 7.8, the relevant primops have been included in GHC itself.
    This library is engineered to work pre- and post-GHC-7.8, while exposing the
    same interface.
    
    Changes in 0.3:
    
    * Major internal change.  Duplicate the barrier code from the GHC RTS and thus
    enable support for executables that are NOT built with '-threaded'.
    
    Changes in 0.4:
    
    * Further internal changes, duplicate 'cas' routine well as barriers.
    
    * Add `fetchAddByteArrayInt`
    
    * Add an `Unboxed` counter variant that uses movable "ByteArray"s on the GHC heap.
    
    Changes in 0.5:
    
    * Remove dependency on bits-atomic unless a flag is turned on.
    
    Changes in 0.5.0.2:
    
    * IMPORTANT BUGFIXES - don't use earlier versions.  They have been marked deprecated.
    
    Changes in 0.6.1
    
    * This is a good version to use for GHC 7.8.3.  It includes portability and bug fixes
    and adds atomicModifyIORefCAS.
    
    Changes in 0.7:
    
    * This release adds support for GHC 7.10 and its expanded library of (now inline) primops.
    to
    After GHC 7.4 a new `casMutVar#` primop became available, but it's
    difficult to use safely, because pointer equality is a highly
    unstable property in Haskell.  This library provides a safer method
    based on the concept of "Tickets".
    
    Also, this library uses the "foreign primop" capability of GHC to
    add access to other variants that may be of
    interest, specifically, compare and swap inside an array.
    
    Note that as of GHC 7.8, the relevant primops have been included in GHC itself.
    This library is engineered to work pre- and post-GHC-7.8, while exposing the
    same interface.
    
    Changes in 0.3:
    
    * Major internal change.  Duplicate the barrier code from the GHC RTS and thus
    enable support for executables that are NOT built with '-threaded'.
    
    Changes in 0.4:
    
    * Further internal changes, duplicate 'cas' routine well as barriers.
    
    * Add `fetchAddByteArrayInt`
    
    * Add an `Unboxed` counter variant that uses movable "ByteArray"s on the GHC heap.
    
    Changes in 0.5:
    
    * Remove dependency on bits-atomic unless a flag is turned on.
    
    Changes in 0.5.0.2:
    
    * IMPORTANT BUGFIXES - don't use earlier versions.  They have been marked deprecated.
    
    Changes in 0.6.1
    
    * This is a good version to use for GHC 7.8.3.  It includes portability and bug fixes
    and adds atomicModifyIORefCAS.
    
    Changes in 0.7:
    
    * This release adds support for GHC 7.10

-r0 (atomic-primops-0.7-r0) 2015-01-16T03:44:17Z RyanNewton 9842e47c6f3e03f1ec21564badc063d093cc9c5bb7c569194e36e1676950279f