Subj : Re: STL Containers w/ Virtually Zero-Overhead Lock-Free Reads...
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From : Dietmar Kuehl
Date : Thu Sep 22 2005 08:19 am

kanze wrote:
> Not even in the allocators?  In the end, all of the allocator
> implementations I know finish sooner or later in malloc, and the
> malloc implementations I know use a lock.

Wouldn't 'malloc()' be one of the first functions to be written in
a lock-free manner?
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