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Change FAQ example with race conditions #1150

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7 changes: 3 additions & 4 deletions FAQ.md
Expand Up @@ -211,15 +211,14 @@ this shortest route, you can just stop and avoid wasted effort. In
sequential land, you might model this "best result" as a shared value
like `Rc<Cell<usize>>` (here the `usize` represents the length of best
path found so far); in parallel land, you'd use a `Arc<AtomicUsize>`.
Now we can make our search function look like:

```rust
fn search(path: &Path, cost_so_far: usize, best_cost: &Arc<AtomicUsize>) {
fn search(path: &Path, cost_so_far: usize, best_cost: &AtomicUsize) {
if cost_so_far >= best_cost.load(Ordering::SeqCst) {
return;
}
...
best_cost.store(...);
// Using `fetch_min` to avoid a race condition, in case it changed since `load`.
best_cost.fetch_min(..., Ordering::SeqCst);
}
```

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