README

Atoms provide a way to manage shared, synchronous, independent state without locks. You can use them to wrap up immutable data structures and then atomically update them using the various Swap methods, or read them by calling the Value property.

If a conflict is encountered during a Swap operation, the operation is re-run using the latest state, and so you should minimise the time spent in the Swap function, as well as make sure there are no side-effects, otherwise all bets are off.

See the concurrency section of the wiki for more info.

Usage

record Person(string Name, string Surname);

// Create a new atom
var person = Atom(new Person("Paul", "Louth"));

// Modify it atomically
person.Swap(p => p with { Surname = $"{p.Name}y" });

// Take a snapshot of the state of the atom 
var snapshot = p.Value;