Could someone explain to me the working and differences of above operations in multi-threading?
Could someone explain to me the working and differences of above operations in multi-threading?
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Could someone explain to me the working and differences of above operations in multi-threading?
test-and-setmodifies the contents of a memory location and returns its old value as a single atomic operation.compare-and-swapatomically compares the contents of a memory location to a given value and, only if they are the same, modifies the contents of that memory location to a given new value.The difference marked in bold.