Re: [LAD] Atomic Operations

From: Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Dec 15 2009 - 15:58:43 EET

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> these concepts have been around in this community (and others) for
> years. i suspect that it is more than a decade since the folks at
> GRAME published their paper on lock free data structures (used in
> MidiShare), and its probably a decade or more since LAD first
> discussed lock free (single-read/single-writer) ringbuffers. there's
> nothing wrong with having new eyes and new ideas but i couldn't see
> anything from a casual glance in that paper that hasn't been
> documented and used by people on this list for a long time.

i should perhaps note that there tends to be less use of generic lock
free data structures because of the absence of nice libraries. maybe
effo can be a useful addition there. its not as if its the first one,
however.
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