Subj : Re: RCU+SMR
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Fri Jul 08 2005 07:33 pm


"David Hopwood" <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:aoFze.110124$Vo6.103897@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...

> I very much doubt that there is enough benefit from using lock-free
> techniques in *applications* to justify the complexity cost, and the
> effort required to learn how to use them correctly. They belong in
> operating systems and language implementations, where these costs are
> amortized over many apps.

    And where portability is less important since you already know you're 
going to have to reimplement and tweak.

    DS

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