Subj : Re: Implementing lock-free data structures
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : SenderX
Date : Thu Mar 10 2005 01:08 pm

> Lock-free stuff is (and always will be) too complicated, error-prone,
> and platform-specific to use directly in applications.

Yeah, however POSIX implementations are highly platform specific, they all 
use atomic operations, memory barriers and lock-free techniques, and they 
can be complicated. We use POSIX everyday.


> And applications
> shouldn't care whether the abstractions they use are implemented using
> lock-free techniques or otherwise.

I would argue that performance critical applications should care about the 
scalability of the abstractions they use. Lock-free techniques can increase 
scalability dramatically...

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