Subj : Re: YALFAm (Yet Another Lock Free Approach, maybe) To : comp.programming.threads From : Michel Date : Thu May 19 2005 07:34 pm Actually there is a quite recent paper from MS wich makes some guarantees and statements. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/kernel/MP_issues.mspx The paper unfortunately is in doc format. Much of whats stated in the paper is applicable in user mode as well. /Michel .