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HomeMIT 6.172 Performance Engineering of Software Systems, Fall 2018Lecture 17: Synchronization Without Locks
Lecture 17: Synchronization Without Locks
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Description: Prof. Leiserson discusses non-lock synchronization using memory models, Peterson’s algorithm, instruction reordering, and hardware reordering. He discusses the compare-and-swap operation; lock-free stacks, pushes, and pops; and the ABA problem.
Instructor: Charles Leiserson