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Also note that lock-free can scale worse, again due to contention. If you want scalability, you want to minimize inter-core and inter-socket traffic.
by vardump 7y ago
Also note that lock-free can scale worse, again due to contention.
If you want scalability, you want to minimize inter-core and inter-socket traffic.
- jchw 7y agoThis is the more important point, realistically. I think I probably would've been better off saying 'lock-free is not a panacea.' All in all, scaling up contentious operations is hard.