Top "Lockless" questions

Lockless operations guarantee simultaneous access to data structures without the usage of conventional locks which are generally slow operations like critical sections, mutexes etc.

How do I build a lockless queue?

I've spent today looking into lockless queues. I have a multiple producer, multiple consumer situation. I implemented, for testing, a …

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What's the difference between lockless and lockfree?

In some articles about algorithm, some use the word lockfree, and some use lockless. What's the difference between lockless and …

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