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I don't know why lock free concurrency control is so fashionable these days. I realize that deadlock and livelock are hard to debug but STM and software impleme
by gengstrand 12y ago
I don't know why lock free concurrency control is so fashionable these days. I realize that deadlock and livelock are hard to debug but STM and software implemented CAS is a CPU hog that gets worse as load increases.
- sitkack 12y agoDoesn't it depend on the overlap and granularity of work? The concurrency mechanism should be treated as a failsafe on conflict, reducing the conflict in the algorithm should be the primary goal.