Re: [boost] Is there interest in parallel versions of <algorithm> functions?

From: Matt Calabrese (rivorus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-16 19:34:05

On 6/16/06, Cory Nelson <phrosty_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> While we are on the subject- is there any interest in a scalable
> lock-free data structures library?  I have some code that works in x86
> and x64 w/ vc++7.1 and gcc 4.1, but I'm not familiar enough with other
> compilers/architectures so I'd need some help with implementing them
> (should be very easy).
>
> This would include thread-safe versions (which do not use a mutex) of
> a stack, queue, some simple freelist memory pools, and maybe a linked
> list.
>

Yes, I would personally be very interested in such a library. In particular,
a portable lock-free queue would be extremely useful for my current project.

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-Matt Calabrese