I always found this paper to be quite a good introduction to lock-free techniques: http://www.grame.fr/ressources/publications/LockFree.pdf http://www.grame.fr

I always found this paper to be quite a good introduction to lock-free techniques: http://www.grame.fr/ressources/publications/LockFree.pdf http://www.grame.fr/ressources/publications/LockFree.pdf In the music world, such issues have been solved repeatedly over the years - seems like a little cross-polination would be a good thing ..