Am I understanding correctly that wait-free writes are not supported?
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I was about to start using this package because I have a single-writer, multi-reader setup where the write operation cannot wait for readers, so a traditional RwLock or Mutex can be annoying. The description says that evmap has "lock-free writes" but I don't see how that would work. Both `flush` and `refresh` will block the writer until the readers are done.
I would want a situation where writers can freely add operations without every having to wait and as soon as there are no more readers, the readers' side is updated. But on the readers' time, not on the writer's time.
It seems like with "lock-free writes" you are intending to say "writes don't prevent new reads", it seems ambiguous as I took it to mean "writes don't need to wait for a lock".
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