Subj : Re: speed-up critical regions
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Markus Elfring
Date : Fri Jun 17 2005 09:41 pm

> Yes, but only on systems that implement universal atomic primitive as
> compare and swap or load linked/store conditional. That's not my case.

Does your development platform omit all primitives (CAS, LL/SC)?

Would you like to reuse the experiences from the paper "Scalable Lock-Free Dynamic Memory
Allocation" by Maged M. Michael?
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/michael/pldi-2004.pdf (173 KB)

Regards,
Markus

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