Re: [boost] Threads: what I wrote...

From: Jens Maurer (Jens.Maurer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-08-09 15:48:55

Dietmar Kuehl wrote:
>   <http://www.dietmar-kuehl.de/threads/>

I've read through the paper.

For avoiding race conditions, it focuses very much on
mutexes and locks.  However, there seems to be a (growing)
set of data structures available which do not require any
locks. For example, a lock-free (yet fully thread-safe)
single-linked list can be achieved when a few atomic CPU
instructions are available (only).

While this is probably system specific, I wonder whether
such atomic operations can be presented in a portable
interface so as to promote portable implementations of
lock-free data structures.

Jens Maurer