In this post, I will briefly discuss optimistic locking technique, its advantages and potential use cases. Pessimistic locking protocol Let's first discuss the opposite of optimistic locking to setup the context. Pessimistic locking is the main locking paradigm used for guaranteeing mutual exclusion for a given piece of code subject to execution by reader and... Continue Reading →
Notes on Lock Free Programming (Part 1)
With the advent of multi-core architectures, it is becoming increasingly important to build scalable data structures that support the basic operations (insert, search) without taking coarse grained locks. Coarse grained locks are usually taken on the entire data structure and prevent any other concurrent thread(s) from operating even on other disjoint/orthogonal parts of the data... Continue Reading →
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