added reference cells with atomic/interlocked semantics #49
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Proposal
This PR introduces atomic cells (similar to F# ref cells), that enable thread-safe atomic operations - based on Interlocked and Volatile capabilities, without expensive locking (with caveats regarding float/int64 on 32 bit machines) - for following types:
int
,int64
,float
,float32
,bool
(via int mapping) and reference types.API
API is modeled to look like standard F#
'a ref
cells: see tests for examples.