Dr. Dobbs article on Lock-free Interprocess Communication

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Dr. Dobbs article on Lock-free Interprocess Communication

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There is an article on the Dr. Dobbs website by Alexander Dokumentov on lock-free IPC. From the article "Interprocess communication is an essential component of modern software engineering. Often, lock-free IPC is accomplished via special processor commands. Here's a way around that." You can see the article at http://www.ddj.com/showArticle.jhtml?ar ... =189401457
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Re: Dr. Dobbs article on Lock-free Interprocess Communicatio

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Dont you think the Coding is quite costly?
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The algorithm seems to have one issue. It requires a "busy loop" where the writer and reader continuously poll the memory. I guess this may not matter if they both know when to start and stop.
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