Subj : Re: Lock Free -- where to start To : comp.programming.threads From : David Hopwood Date : Thu Sep 29 2005 07:34 pm Oliver S. wrote: >>So, "certain types" of lock-free queues are useful >>for high-performance cpu-to-cpu communications. > > I doubt that there's a noteworthy need for this kind of high-perfor- > mance cpu-to-cpu communications because of the usual code patterns > mentioned above. Please tell me only a single case in which the en- > queuing or deqeuing with usual mutexes takes a noteworthy time in > relation to the time taken to process the dequeued items afterwards. In the implementation of a message passing language, where this overhead applies to every message send/reception. -- David Hopwood .