The whole reason to use lock/wait free algorithms is to minimize latency. Else you can use cheap locks and he done with it! And for latency, the worst var is w

The whole reason to use lock/wait free algorithms is to minimize latency. Else you can use cheap locks and he done with it! And for latency, the worst var is what matters. With 10 occurrences per macro operation, about half of all operations will see 90 percentile latency at least once!