Re: A Lock-Free Hash Table - Cliff Click

I didn't see it in the talk, but source is available here -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-scale-lib

-- 
Robert Dale

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Shawn Hartsock <[email protected]> wrote:
> My apologies if you've all already seen this.
>
> ...floating around on Slashdot right now:
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2139967204534450862
>
> In summary Dr. Cliff Click has written a concurrent data structure
> that gets around what many considered intrinsic barriers to
> multi-threaded programming. His talk is very accessible and he makes
> an interesting use of a Finite State machine as proof-of-correctness.
> I'd love to hear this groups take on Azul and these techniques. I'm
> also curious if many Java programmers in the triangle have to deal
> with concurrency themselves or if they happily let Spring/J2EE take
> care of the issues by marking things transactional.
>
> The interesting bit in Click's talk (at least to me) is that he has a
> concurrent data structure that is thread safe and doesn't make use of
> a single lock or synchronize. (If he is I'm missing it and would love
> to be corrected.)
>
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