Re: [atomic] Bikeshedding over address-free waiting/notifying operation names

From: degski (degski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-06-01 12:07:50

On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 06:18, Andrey Semashev via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 2020-06-01 13:50, degski wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 31 May 2020 at 16:05, Andrey Semashev via Boost
> > <boost_at_[hidden] <mailto:boost_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
> >
> >     The "address-free"
> >     term comes from the C++ standard, but the resulting names seem a bit
> >     long. Maybe there are better suggestions?
> >
> >
> > What about "global_"-prefix or "_system"-post-fix ("_sys")?
>
> Hmm, that doesn't quite communicate the difference from the default
> operations.
>

On the assumption that the std-post-fixes have already extensively been
bike-shedded, any alternative will likely be a compromise between length
and descriptiveness, so your 'hmmm ...' is natural, I'm thinking about
words around 'virtual memory' (because that's where the non-local addresses
come from), while "_virtual" is out of the question.

degski
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