a = Threads.Atomic{Int}(0); b = zeros(10) Threads.@threads for i = 1:10 a += i b[i] = Threads.threadid() end a When running this code with multiple threads , the value of variable “a” at the end of every iteration is different, certainly less than 55 though. I am unable to understand how …

(Please quote your code) Atomic variable does not mean multiple modification on them will be magically atomic, it only means that every single operations on them are atomic and also obey certain ordering guarantees. In this case a[] += i is not a single operation, it is an atomic load, an add, and …

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