On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
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.
i should perhaps note that there tends to be less use of generic lock
free data structures because of the absence of nice libraries. maybe
effo can be a useful addition there. its not as if its the first one,
however.