On 07/08/2012 04:55 PM, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> Does anyone know of somewhere I can find a description of how to
>> implement a lock-free work queue? I'm curious to see how it's done.
>
> Have you tried a google search. I didn't, but I'm pretty sure that there
> should be plenty of material out there.

I had thought this, but I didn't manage to find anything. (Other than 
several Wikipedia pages saying that "algorithms exist to do this".)

> AFAIK lock-free algorithms cannot be implemented without proper hardware
> support.

Yeah, I figured that would be the case.

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