On Feb 25, 2005, at 5:29 PM, Maxim Yegorushkin wrote:
I've just read the paper "High Performance Dynamic Lock-Free Hash Tables and List-Based Sets" by Maged M. Michael at http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~shanir/reading%20group/p73-michael.pdf and wonder if the subject has become feasible. The paper basically states that the algorithms can be implemented on most current processor architectures using CAS or LL/CS instructions, rather than rare DCAS/CAS2 instructions.
Is that true?
I have read this particular paper, but yes, it can be done.
Is there something going on in boost with regards to the subject?
We (the Open Systems Lab at Indiana University) are starting to look into lock-free data structures for the Parallel BGL. We have not gotten far, yet, but we hope that in the next few months we'll put lock-free data structures (we're mostly interested in queues and property maps for now) to good use. Doug