Re:Discipline Doesn’t Scale
by dkersten on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @05:47AM
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> it's typically not faster than a lock-based approach
A common train of thought seems to be "locks are slow, so lock free must be fast", while lock-free says nothing about performance -- only about forward progress.
A common train of thought seems to be "locks are slow, so lock free must be fast", while lock-free says nothing about performance -- only about forward progress.