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Document number: N3600

Date: 2013-03-16

C++ Latches and Barriers

by Alasdair Mackintosh

Excerpt:

We propose a set of commonly-used concurrency classes, some of which may be implemented using efficient lock-free algorithms where appropriate. This paper describes the latch and barrier classes.