Subj : Re: Windows Suspend/ResumeThread API equivalent for Linux or POSIX?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Oliver S.
Date : Thu May 12 2005 02:28 am

> Sounds like doing an awful lot of work to save a small amount of
> work. Suspending a thread without its cooperation is an incredibly
> expensive thing to do.

I don't really understand what Chris' is doing here because I'm not
familiar with this "hazard-pointers" (although I already heard of
this term and I know that it has to do with lock-free algorithms);
but I implemented a lock-free stack some time ago on Win32/x86.
And I vaguely suppose that this suspension is done in case of a
collision between two threads which isn't impossible, but usually
very unlikely (at least with my stack). So isn't it possible that
this suspension statistically needs a very small amount of compu-
tation-time because it is done very rare ?

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