The Atomics.isLockFree() static method is used to determine whether the Atomics methods use locks or atomic hardware operations when applied to typed arrays with the given element byte size. It returns false if the given size is not one of the BYTES_PER_ELEMENT property of integer TypedArray types.
Atomics.isLockFree()
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Syntax
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Atomics.isLockFree(size)
Parameters
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size -
The size in bytes to check.
Return value
A true or false value indicating whether the operation is lock free.
Examples
Using isLockFree
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Atomics.isLockFree(1); // true
Atomics.isLockFree(2); // true
Atomics.isLockFree(3); // false
Atomics.isLockFree(4); // true
Atomics.isLockFree(5); // false
Atomics.isLockFree(6); // false
Atomics.isLockFree(7); // false
Atomics.isLockFree(8); // true
Specifications
Browser compatibility
| Desktop | Mobile | Server | ||||||||||||
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | Deno | Node.js | ||
isLockFree |
68 | 79 | 78 | 55 | 15.2 | 89 | 79 | 63 | 15.2 | 15.0 | 89 | 1.0 | 8.10.0 | |
See also
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Atomics/isLockFree