< However you can also use them to
< implement circular FIFOs for example, which is a trick used all the
< time in audio as well as in kernel programming.
For anyone interested...
The Effo libraries seem to have a fair choise of lock-free queue
and ringbuffer implementations in the addon project:
http://code.google.com/p/effoaddon/
But I have to admit that i find these concepts quite confusing...