I don't know how authoritative it is but I was taking the definitions from here: http://www.1024cores.net/home/lock-free-algorithms/introduction http://www.102

I don't know how authoritative it is but I was taking the definitions from here: http://www.1024cores.net/home/lock-free-algorithms/introduction http://www.1024cores.net/home/lock-free-algorithms/introduct... They define wait free as not even having thread starvation and lock free as not having to wait for anything as long as you have CPU to actually run. Its always interesting how any given topic always fragments into much more complexity than you expected once you start learning about it!