Atomic operations

The sync package delivers synchronization primitives, and, under the hood, it is using thread-safe operations on integers and pointers. We can find these functionalities in another package called sync/atomic, which can be used to create tools specific to the user use case, with better performance and less memory usage.

Integer operations

There is a series of functions for pointers to the different types of integers:

• int32   
• int64   
• uint32  
• uint64  
  
• uintptr 

This includes a specific type of integer that represents a pointer, uintptr. The operation available for these types are as follows:

• Load: Retrieves the integer value from the pointer
• Store: Stores...