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Subj : Re: RCU+SMR
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joe Seigh
Date : Sat Jul 09 2005 10:16 am

David Hopwood wrote:
> Randy Howard wrote:
> 
>> True.  I've yet to hear of any commercial or popular OSS application 
>> bragging about the massive performance benefits achieved through the 
>> use of lock-free techniques.
> 
> 
> I very much doubt that there is enough benefit from using lock-free
> techniques in *applications* to justify the complexity cost, and the
> effort required to learn how to use them correctly. They belong in
> operating systems and language implementations, where these costs are
> amortized over many apps.
> 
Depends on the api and usage patterns that you create for the lock-free
stuff.  Some people believe threading is too difficult to use and
should not be used by applications.  Some have gone a far to say that
they would fire any of their employees that used multi-threading.  I've
even seen that in job ads, that the candidate should know how to not
use threading.  A lot of trauma cases out there apparently. :)

-- 
Joe Seigh

When you get lemons, you make lemonade.
When you get hardware, you make software.

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