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Subj : Re: Distributed Proxy Reference Counting: The VZOOM Algorithm...
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Thomasson
Date : Mon Sep 19 2005 06:55 am

> ROP is similar to SMR in some aspects.  Sun has gone beyond DWCAS (or 
> DCAS)
> at this point.  They're into KCSS (k compare, single swap)

IIRC, they used DWCAS to implement KCSS. I believe it had a lot of atomic 
operations under the hood, both ROP and KCSS; better off using an optimized 
mutex?

;)




> and transactional
> memory for obstruction-free (not lock-free) algorithms.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming.threads/msg/e43fce88eb0775c8

Does "obstruction-free" rely on backoff algorithms in order to avoid 
live-lock? BTW, How are they managing the memory for all of that... Do they 
use Java GC?

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