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real people don't write "compare-and-swap" ... or "lo-and-behold" for that matter. edit. Clearly the joke about "lo-and-behold" didn't land well with the bots.

• ninjaoxygen 23d ago
  People who grew up with assembly language or locking primitives are fairly likely to use compare-and-swap because it's literally the commonly understood term for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap
  • 8by3 23d ago
    TIL, thanks for the context. What I was getting at still stands, LLM's seem to love a lot of words-with-hyphens which might be grammatically correct, but I've never seen a human actually type.
• BenoitP 23d ago
  Compare-and-swap is a hardware instruction, and beyond that a desirable pattern for dealing with concurrent writes. CMPXCHG https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/cmpxchg https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/cmpxchg https://lwn.net/Articles/847973/ https://lwn.net/Articles/847973/
• lelanthran 23d ago
  I do. For compare-and-swap I have even got a lock less queue that I implemented with it.