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Posted: **Mon Jun 26, 2006 11:30 am**

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

Posted: **Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:22 am**

Dont you think the Coding is quite costly?

Posted: **Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:36 pm**

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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Dr. Dobbs article on Lock-free Interprocess Communication

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