Concurrency kit – Concurrency primitives and non-blocking data structures in C

Re:Concurrency kit – Concurrency primitives and non-blocking... by mingodad on Sunday September 13, 2015 @05:42AM (#10210816)

I looked at this library in the past and I could not find any usage of it in any open source project. That made me a bit scary, how a library like this with the supposed well thought construction is not used anywhere ?

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Re:Concurrency kit – Concurrency primitives and non-blocking... by sbahra on Monday September 14, 2015 @01:19PM (#10216155)

It's used in a lot of mission-critical commercial applications which I think is a stronger indicator. It just so happens those aren't open-source. This ranges from mission-critical enterprise software to internal infrastructure tied directly to revenue generation. There is a serious cost to failure there (money, liability, jobs, etc...).

Few software uses these advanced techniques in general, and it isn't so much about Concurrency Kit. There is a barrier to entry as folks have to invest non-trivial amounts of time in learning more about these techniques.

Some open-source examples: http://www.machinekit.io/ https://labs.omniti.com/labs/reconnoiter https://github.com/Litres/turboxsl Aerospike

I'm sure there are others, if there's anything I'm missing, would love to hear.

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