[LAD] Atomic Operations

[lieven moors]

Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:43 AM, lieven moors <lievenmoors at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Here are the details...
>>
>> http://effocore.googlecode.com/files/EffoDesign_LockFree.pdf
>>     
>
> these concepts have been around in this community (and others) for
> years. i suspect that it is more than a decade since the folks at
> GRAME published their paper on lock free data structures (used in
> MidiShare), and its probably a decade or more since LAD first
> discussed lock free (single-read/single-writer) ringbuffers. there's
> nothing wrong with having new eyes and new ideas but i couldn't see
> anything from a casual glance in that paper that hasn't been
> documented and used by people on this list for a long time.
>
> --p
>
>   
I just wanted to say that these concepts are still above my
head because I am not an experienced programmer...

I know that ringbuffers are lock-free by design for two threads,
but I find it hard to understand what it means for a ringbuffer
or a queue to use atomic operations.