On Jul 21, 2011, at 2:46 AM, Tim Blechmann wrote:
i am starting a new thread, because i want to start a new discussion on one aspect of boost.lockfree: the naming of the data structure and the interface
naming: the current names of the data structures are fifo, stack and ringbuffer. during the pre-review some people suggested to use different names, lifo instead of stack or queue instead of fifo. in general i think it is a good idea to use a consistent naming (probably fifo should be renamed to queue), but how does the ringbuffer come in? it is a queue as well, but with different characteristics (spsc and wait-free).
I generally prefer plain English over acronyms -- especially since stack and queue are terms and concepts well-understood by computer scientists, but LIFO and FIFO may require mentally deducing which one is which. So my vote is on "stack" and "queue". As for "ringbuffer", I would consider shortening it to just "ring". Josh