Hey gents, does anybody have a good blog post or guide on using

kotlinx.coroutines.experimental.internal.LockFreeLinkedListHead

and friends? I'm using

AtomicReference

with immutable classes and its working, but at this point I'm now asking my

getAndUpdate

call to allocate a lot of new data in its `update`er method. some notes: - yes I know that class isnt formally part of the API, I will update as appropriate, and either copy-paste that code or keep everything at version zero. - my existing solution probably would be fine if

kotlinx.collections.immutable

was part of the stdlib, or I wanted to include it as an external dep, but its not, and I don't, and it seems to have lost all steam, much to my shigrin - no, I dont want to use

atomicfu

because I dont understand what atomicfu is asking me to do to my build system, ill poke around at gradle + byte code manipulation later.

Sorry. It is really internal for a reason that we don’t want to (nor have time to) make it public. Moreover, it is not the algorithm of the highest performance, but gets job done for us meanwhile (and outperforms some competition). In the future we hope to get it replaced with something more efficient (there is some research work in process).

@groostav it's not exactly what you are searching for but this may be helpful: