On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Paul Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > these concepts have been around in this community (and others) for > years. i suspect that it is more than a decade since the folks at > GRAME published their paper on lock free data structures (used in > MidiShare), and its probably a decade or more since LAD first > discussed lock free (single-read/single-writer) ringbuffers. there's > nothing wrong with having new eyes and new ideas but i couldn't see > anything from a casual glance in that paper that hasn't been > documented and used by people on this list for a long time.
i should perhaps note that there tends to be less use of generic lock free data structures because of the absence of nice libraries. maybe effo can be a useful addition there. its not as if its the first one, however. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
