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Re:Nah Lock: A Lock-Free Memory Allocator by jules on Sunday November 16, 2014 @03:20PM (#8615283)
Simple solution: use a GC'd language. The GC will find those references, even in registers of other threads.
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Re:Nah Lock: A Lock-Free Memory Allocator by jamesaguilar on Sunday November 16, 2014 @03:41PM (#8615358)
Kinda agree with this flippant response, but then again, if you need speed such that you care about lock free algorithms, you are likely using one of the very fast languages, and few of these offer a garbage collector.
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Re:Nah Lock: A Lock-Free Memory Allocator by scott_s on Sunday November 16, 2014 @03:37PM (#8615335)
Someone needs to implement the garbage collector and virtual machine.
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Re:Nah Lock: A Lock-Free Memory Allocator by jules on Sunday November 16, 2014 @03:37PM (#8615339)
Yes, once. Not once per lock free algorithm.
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