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Subj : C++ and lock-free
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joe Seigh
Date : Fri Sep 16 2005 06:21 am

If C++0x ever gets out of being stuck in an infinite loop on
the memory model, where does anyone think C++ is going on
lock-free, the stuff Herb Sutter keeps mentioning but I've
never seen any specific examples except for some simplistic
under the covers COW stuff for string which usually devolves
into discussions about bad design decisions of Std::String?

More importantly, since the trend in computing is to patent
everything new, and since C++ relies rather heavily on libraries,
meaning a lock-free version of STL and Boost will have to be
done at some point, what do they think they're going to use
to write these new lock-free libraries with?

Of course, given that patents will only last for 20 years or so,
at the rate they're going, maybe things will work out.  :)

-- 
Joe Seigh

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

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