High water mark check-then-act
Review this Go high-water-mark tracker that records the largest latency seen, called from many request goroutines.
What a strong answer looks like
Separate real bugs from style. Rank issues by severity, point at the root cause rather than the symptom, and suggest a concrete fix, specific and kind.
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Mark a line and say what kind of problem it is.0 findings
1type HighWater struct {
2 max atomic.Int64
3}
4
5func (h *HighWater) Observe(latencyNs int64) {
6 if latencyNs > h.max.Load() {
7 h.max.Store(latencyNs)
8 }
9}
10
11func (h *HighWater) Max() int64 { return h.max.Load() }
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