I think this is relatively standard practice for writing thread-safe shared data structures. For example, Elixir agents: http://elixir-lang.org/docs/stable/elix

I think this is relatively standard practice for writing thread-safe shared data structures. For example, Elixir agents: http://elixir-lang.org/docs/stable/elixir/Agent.html http://elixir-lang.org/docs/stable/elixir/Agent.html