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Appendices

Supported Platforms & Compilers
Future Developments
References

Supported Platforms & Compilers

boost.lockfree has been tested on the following platforms:

  • g++ 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6, linux, x86 & x86_64
  • clang++ 3.0, linux, x86 & x86_64

Future Developments

  • More data structures (set, hash table, dequeue)
  • Backoff schemes (exponential backoff or elimination)

References

  1. Simple, Fast, and Practical Non-Blocking and Blocking Concurrent Queue Algorithms by Michael Scott and Maged Michael, In Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, pages 267–275, 1996.
  2. M. Herlihy & Nir Shavit. The Art of Multiprocessor Programming, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2008
Copyright © 2008-2011 Tim Blechmann

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

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