alt Hacker NewsI work on a commercial database marketed as "lock-free" and I can't tell you how many CAS spin loops I've seen with no backoff or iteration bounds.
I work on a commercial database marketed as "lock-free" and I can't tell you how many CAS spin loops I've seen with no backoff or iteration bounds.
Does the system provide ready made backoff and / or bounded CAS loop primitives? Because if you have to write the entire thing in full every time I can see why it’s get skipped.