mrcode007
Joined 9 years ago
Joined 9 years ago
The discussion was about 0.1 for finer grained control and implied ability to experiment with dosages rather than stick with third party selected dosage regardless of needs.
https://www.milliman.com/en/insight/mortgage-market-and-hous...
https://www.sifma.org/issues/market-structure/housing-financ...
I know there is an academic wait-free and lock-free definition but folks use those often incorrectly as a slogan that something is magically better because it’s „lockfree”.
Imagine how _you_ would implement a read-modify-write atomic in the CPU and why E stands for exclusive (sort of like exclusive in a mutex)
[1]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/concurr... [2]https://arxiv.org/pdf/1012.1824
There is one more mechanism that allows implementing ring buffers without having to compare head and tail buffers at all (and doesn’t rely on counters or empty/full flags etc) that piggybacks on the cache consistency protocol