[Openmcl-devel] Non Blocking Nearly Wait Free Hash Table questions...

[Jon S. Anthony]

On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 16:48 -0500, Gail Zacharias wrote:

> At some point, aren't you just reimplementing locks?  I'm getting out 
> of my depth here, Gary will have to say whether doing this sort of 
> thing by hand is actually any better than using system locks (or 
> semaphores or whatever).

Yes, I was thinking that very thing.  And maybe locks are implemented
using this very sort of operation, in which case this is just a crappy
reinvention of the wheel...


> Anyway, if you want to experiment, the functions that do this sort of 
> thing are ccl::%store-node-conditional and 
> ccl::%store-immediate-conditional.  Use at your own risk.

I'll check it out, but I am pretty sure this is a lame approach.

Thanks,

/Jon