Subj : Re: Lock Free -- where to start
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Oliver S.
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 01:48 am

>  - someone asks how to solve a problem. Typically it's clear from
>    this post that the poster has relatively little experience with
>    concurrent programming in general.

Ok, but in this case someone asked for resources on lock-free program-
ming. 

>  - one of the usual suspects suggests "using lock-free techniques".

Yes, and it's pretty anoying when Chris Thomasson jumps into the
scene iust to emphasize his work (with a IMHO very ugly coding-style).
He suggessts to use lock-free-processing although the cases where this
is really necessary because of a notable performance-advantages are
rarer than the neelde in a haystack. And in the current case, he sug-
gests his nearly undocumented and hardly readable source as an origin
for lock-free-processing knowledge. That's nearly as ridiculous as
suggesting to crack a Pentiums cpu-cap to someone asking for resour-
ces on micro-processor-architectures.

>  - the thread wanders off into esoterica about how to implement
>    stuff at a completely disjoint level of abstraction to the
>    original question. 

That might be a problem in a vis-à-vis discussion - but not in a
newsgroup where the focus may migrate vom one aspect to the next.

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