Actual race condition in JavaScript with assignment operator?

I'm not talking about complex race conditions involving the network or events. Rather, I seem to have found out that the += operator is not atomic in V8 (Chrome 58, or Node 8).

The code below aims to run two so-called threads in parallel. Each "thread" calls repeatedly a function that returns its number parameter after sleeping that many seconds. The results are summed up into an accumulator.

function sleep(ms) {
  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}

// Return the passed number after sleeping that many seconds
async function n(c) {
  await sleep(c * 1000);
  console.log('End', c);
  return c;
}

let acc = 0;  // global

// Call n repeatedly and sum up results
async function nForever(c) {
  while (1) {
    console.log('Calling', c);
    acc += await n(c);  // += not atomic?!
    console.log('Acc', acc);
  }
}

(async function() {
  // parallel repeated calls
  nForever(1);
  nForever(5.3);  // .3 for sanity, to avoid overlap with 1 * 5
})();

The problem is that after ~5 seconds, I'd expect the accumulator to be 10.3 (5 times 1 + 1 times 5.3). However, it's 5.3!

via Dan Dascalescu