[zeromq-dev] Inter thread communication for scalability

[Goswin von Brederlow]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 03:48:34PM -0500, Lindley French wrote:
> A visit to the Boost libraries reveals there's a brand-new Boost.Lockfree
> library that must have arrived with one of the last few versions. You
> should seriously consider simply replacing your std::lists with
> boost::lockfree::queues using your existing logic, and see if that gives
> you the performance you're looking for before you make any massive changes.

Is Boost using the right term there?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock-free:

  In computer science, a non-blocking algorithm ensures that threads
  competing for a shared resource do not have their execution
  indefinitely postponed by mutual exclusion. A non-blocking algorithm
  is lock-free if there is guaranteed system-wide progress; wait-free if
  there is also guaranteed per-thread progress.

Lock-free does not mean that you don't have locks. It just means you
can't have deadlocks. You can't get stuck. Idealy what you want is a
wait-free algorithm.

MfG
	Goswin