* [ASDisplayNode] Convert isSynchronous to an Objective-C atomic BOOL.
This reduces lock contention, and should also fix a very rarely seen deadlock.
* [ASDisplayNode] Implement a std::atomic-based flag system for superb performance
Although Objective-C atomics are equally fast, or better that std::atomic when
access through method calls, for the most intense use cases it is best to avoid
method calls entirely.
In ASDisplayNode, we could benefit significantly from avoiding both method calls
(already true today) but also avoid locking the mutex, for both CPU and contention
gains.
There will still be many methods that need locking for transactional
consistency - however, there are currently dozens of accessor methods that could
avoid frequent lock / unlock cycles with use of atomics, and other usages of the
ivars directly where locking could be delayed until after early-return conditions
are checked and passed.
We have to check in this case if the supernode of the subnode is indeed the _node that executes a layout transition. It can happen that a node already did a layout transition and added this subnode, in this case the subnode would would be removed from the new node instead of _node.
Adlai Holler
Michael Schneider
appleguy
Garrett Moon
Adlai Holler