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Re:A collection of lock-free data structures written in stan... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:59AM (#35886689)
For me the biggest benefit of lock free programming is avoiding deadlocks.

Locks are not composable. Unless you are aware of what locks every function in your call tree is using, you can easily end up with a deadlock.

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