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Document number: N3927

Date: 2014-02-13

Definition of Lock-Free

by Lawrence Crowl

Excerpt:

This paper addresses issue LWG 2075: Progress guarantees, lock-free property, and scheduling assumptions. This issue is also US 5 in N3733 ISO/IEC CD 14882, C++ 2014, National Body Comments.