[boost] portable lock free algorithms

From: Maxim Yegorushkin (e-maxim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-25 17:29:05

Hi there,

I've just read the paper "High Performance Dynamic Lock-Free Hash Tables  
and List-Based Sets" by Maged M. Michael at  
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~shanir/reading%20group/p73-michael.pdf and wonder  
if the subject has become feasible. The paper basically states that the  
algorithms can be implemented on most current processor architectures  
using CAS or LL/CS instructions, rather than rare DCAS/CAS2 instructions.

Is that true?

Is there something going on in boost with regards to the subject?

-- 
Maxim Yegorushkin