Subj : Re: RCU+SMR   Not!
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joe Seigh
Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 10:10 am

Joe Seigh wrote:
> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> 
>> Even a granted patent would not make it so. BTW, how is the proof of 
>> your perpetum mobile doing? (I mean "barrier free" hazard pointers.)
>>
[...]
> 
> I think the way to go on lock-free is with Java and C# which has a
> documented memory model and proper atomicity guarantees.  The whole
> issue of how to implement a truly concurrent and efficient GC becomes
> "somebody else's problem".  See how easy that was to fix?  :)
> 
Well, maybe not.  I forgot.  Sun has a patent on using GC for lock-free
in Java.

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Joe Seigh

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When you get hardware, you make software.

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