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Revisit "Lock-Free" Terminology and Support #26

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Xenoprimate opened this issue Feb 18, 2019 · 1 comment
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Revisit "Lock-Free" Terminology and Support #26

Xenoprimate opened this issue Feb 18, 2019 · 1 comment
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Although some of the simpler API surface is indeed lock-free, a lot of it isn't. Additionally, the spin-waits may prove disadvantageous under higher thread counts.

This ties somewhat with #25.
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It may be worth at least falling back to a guarantee of linearizability.

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