Re: Can't interrupt tight loops in Lua 5.4 anymore?

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great connor horman once stated:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 23:11 connor horman <chorman64@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Atomics may break arbitrarily if multithreading is used.
> >
> (Appologies for the double post, hit Send by accident). Just because it
> does work now does not mean that a different platform, or even a random
> compiler optimization would not break stuff. Data races are a really nice
> footgun, as they can even happen on a whim. Maybe You started the program
> on an odd numbered cycle, so the read order is broken. So many ways a data
> race that seemingly works "fine" can just arbitrarily break.

  So what is the correct way to do this then?

  -spc