alt Hacker NewsThis isn't that new. (see: FASTER: A Concurrent Key-Value Store with In-Place Updates. 2018 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data and related papers)
However, this is well written and very easy to read.
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auxym • last Tuesday at 2:33 PM
Also this Nim library: https://github.com/nim-works/loony
Which is based on: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9490347
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Well, when I was doing the original work on it (about 5 years ago now), I spent a lot of time trying to find something else in the literature. I couldn't find anything that wasn't SPMC or MPSC, unless it had severe limitations, like not actually having a drop policy when full.
However, I definitely did not see the paper you've sited, but just spent a few minutes with the paper you cited. Section 5.2 seems to cover their version. It's far from clear what their algorithm is, but they are talking about page eviction; it doesn't seem like they're using even a single fixed array for the ring, but I'm not 100% sure because it's pretty light on any detail. a