22 Oct
2015
22 Oct
'15
8:03 a.m.
On 22/10/2015 20:57, Giovanni Piero Deretta wrote:
It seems to me then it is not really lock free then, right?
There's a difference between "lock free" and "wait free" (though I haven't examined the code to see which most correctly applies here). Wait-free is better than lock-free, of course, but it's also incredibly hard to achieve in an MPMC problem.