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0 pointsrobertgraham13y ago0 comments

The entire point of the post was talk about "lock-free" algorithms where two cores can make forward progress without either having to wait or spin.

What systems have mutexes that aren't built like futexes?

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javert13y ago

Kernels, and probably any kind of parallel user-level runtime like Erlang.

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0 pointsrobertgraham13y ago0 comments

The entire point of the post was talk about "lock-free" algorithms where two cores can make forward progress without either having to wait or spin.

What systems have mutexes that aren't built like futexes?

javert13y ago

Kernels, and probably any kind of parallel user-level runtime like Erlang.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse