Subj : Re: Lock Free -- where to start
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joe Seigh
Date : Tue Oct 04 2005 09:00 am

Oliver S. wrote:
>>And what would you do with tranactional memory?
>>Lock-free algorithms?
> 
> 
> Yes, but with transactional memory, they're *much* smarter. A lot of
> tricks aren't needed any more (f.e. aba-counters). And when you've got
> a timeout-implementation (which aren't necessary when you use transac-
> tional memory only between threads of the same process), lock-free
> processing is much more efficient than whith this idiotic (D)CAS-algo-
> rithms.

So the problem with lock-free was using compare and swap to implement
it with?

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Joe Seigh

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