Questions tagged [nonatomic]
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What's the difference between the atomic and nonatomic attributes?
What do atomic and nonatomic mean in property declarations?
@property(nonatomic, retain) UITextField *userName;
@property(atomic, retain) UITextField *userName;
@property(retain) UITextField *...
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Will atomic operations block other threads?
I am trying to make "atomic vs non atomic" concept settled in my mind. My first problem is I could not find "real-life analogy" on that. Like customer/restaurant relationship over atomic operations or ...
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Objective-c properties for primitive types
In Objective-C Does it ever make sense to specify a property for a primitive type as nonatomic?
I'm wondering about the difference between these two properties:
@property (nonatomic) BOOL myBool;
@...
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Atomic access to non-atomic memory location in C++11 and OpenMP?
OpenMP, in contrast to C++11, works with atomicity from a perspective of memory operations, not variables. That allows, e.g., to use atomic reads/writes for integers being stored in a vector with ...
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Objective-C: Defaults to atomic for scalar properties?
A friend told me that the @property default for scalar properties (BOOL, NSInteger, etc.) is nonatomic. I.e.,
@property BOOL followVenmo;
defaults to
@property (nonatomic) BOOL followVenmo;
But, I ...
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How to remove function from list in R?
I have list with two functions:
foo <- function() { print('foo') }
bar <- function() {}
l <- list(foo, bar)
How can I remove function foo without knowing its index?
I've tried this (to get ...
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Difference between private instance variable and property in class extension (Objective-c 2.0)
What are the differences (if any) between the following Objective-c 2.0 code snippets:
// in MyClass.h
@interface MyClass
@private
NSString *myString;
@end
and
// in MyClass.m
@interface ...
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Why atomic and nonatomic concept has removed from swift
There is no nonatomic keyword in swift, Why nonatomic not required in swift as it exist in objective c.
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Dangers of simultaneous write and read of a boolean in a simple situation
I've read some similar questions but the situations described there are bit more complicated.
I have a bool b initialized as false in the heap and two threads. I do understand that operations with ...
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What is the difference between a strong and weak button in Objective c? [duplicate]
When declaring a button, there are always two options as properties for the button:strong and weak. What is the difference between them? Also, what it nonatomic? For example:
@property (weak, ...
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Deallocating nonatomic copy setter
I am trying to create non-atomic copy accessors, and I read everywhere that the object should be released at the end. So, if you could help me understand whether I am doing it properly, I would ...
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Do I have to use nonatomic property in objective-c ios programing?
I'm developing an iPhone app.
All the iPhone development books I have read use nonatomic property.
And IBOutlets which xcode generates also use nonatomic keyword.
But I don't like to write nonatomic ...
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are nonatomic and atomic thread unsafe in objective c?
I read that nonatomic and atomic both are thread unsafe. but nonatomic is faster because it allows faster access means asynchronously and atomic is slower it allows slower access synchronously.
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C - volatile qualifier while lock is held
Do I need the volatile qualifier for variables only accessed while a lock is held? In this code, could removing the volatile qualifier from n possibly change the behavior when concurrent_foo is ...
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What is the value of property in ios
In Atomic we all know one thread is access one object at a time. if we have 3 thread want to access one object then first come first serve method apply to thread ... but in non atomic all thread is ...
