Copyright | (c) Justin Bonnar 2011 Roman Leshchinskiy 2011-2012 |
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License | BSD-style |
Maintainer | Roman Leshchinskiy <rl@cse.unsw.edu.au> |
Portability | non-portable |
Safe Haskell | Safe-Inferred |
Language | Haskell2010 |
Primitive boxed mutable variables. This is a generalization of
Data.IORef, Data.STRef and Data.STRef.Lazy to work in
any PrimMonad
.
Synopsis
- data MutVar s a = MutVar (MutVar# s a)
- newMutVar :: PrimMonad m => a -> m (MutVar (PrimState m) a)
- readMutVar :: PrimMonad m => MutVar (PrimState m) a -> m a
- writeMutVar :: PrimMonad m => MutVar (PrimState m) a -> a -> m ()
- atomicModifyMutVar :: PrimMonad m => MutVar (PrimState m) a -> (a -> (a, b)) -> m b
- atomicModifyMutVar' :: PrimMonad m => MutVar (PrimState m) a -> (a -> (a, b)) -> m b
- modifyMutVar :: PrimMonad m => MutVar (PrimState m) a -> (a -> a) -> m ()
- modifyMutVar' :: PrimMonad m => MutVar (PrimState m) a -> (a -> a) -> m ()
Documentation
A MutVar
behaves like a single-element mutable array associated
with a primitive state token.
newMutVar :: PrimMonad m => a -> m (MutVar (PrimState m) a) Source #
Create a new MutVar
with the specified initial value.
writeMutVar :: PrimMonad m => MutVar (PrimState m) a -> a -> m () Source #
Write a new value into a MutVar
.
atomicModifyMutVar :: PrimMonad m => MutVar (PrimState m) a -> (a -> (a, b)) -> m b Source #
Atomically mutate the contents of a MutVar
.
This function is useful for using MutVar
in a safe way in a multithreaded program.
If you only have one MutVar
, then using atomicModifyMutVar
to access and modify
it will prevent race conditions.
Extending the atomicity to multiple MutVar
s is problematic,
so if you need to do anything more complicated,
using MVar
instead is a good idea.
atomicModifyMutVar
does not apply the function strictly. This means if a program
calls atomicModifyMutVar
many times, but seldom uses the value, thunks will pile up
in memory resulting in a space leak.
To avoid this problem, use atomicModifyMutVar'
instead.
atomicModifyMutVar' :: PrimMonad m => MutVar (PrimState m) a -> (a -> (a, b)) -> m b Source #
Strict version of atomicModifyMutVar
. This forces both the value stored
in the MutVar
as well as the value returned.
modifyMutVar :: PrimMonad m => MutVar (PrimState m) a -> (a -> a) -> m () Source #
Mutate the contents of a MutVar
.
modifyMutVar
does not apply the function strictly. This means if a program
calls modifyMutVar
many times, but seldom uses the value, thunks will pile up
in memory resulting in a space leak.
To avoid this problem, use modifyMutVar'
instead.
modifyMutVar' :: PrimMonad m => MutVar (PrimState m) a -> (a -> a) -> m () Source #
Strict version of modifyMutVar
.