21 May 2020 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 15 August 2023″What Every Systems Programmer Should Know About Lockless Concurrency” is a short paper by Matt Kline that explores ways we can synchronize concurrent operations without relying on standard OS constructs, such as mutexes, semaphores, and condition variables. These strategies are also used to implement those same OS constructs. The paper also briefly touches on sources of concurrency problems that arise from compilers and from the hardware itself. Note: This paper was featured as a Reading Club assignment. Files What Every Systems Programmer Should Know About Lockless Concurrency Archive with …
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