(Re)Actors
TBH, I am a big fan of actor- and reactor-like programming patterns (also known as Finite State Machines. While you’re not strictly required to use reactors and might be able to get away without them – they DO provide several very substantial benefits.
CAS (Re)Actor for Non-Blocking Multithreaded Primitives
July 23, 2018 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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in 2017, I started to feel that the Dark Ages of mutex-based thread sync were over
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Another issue which almost universally rears its ugly head when speaking about not-so-trivial uses of CAS is the so-called ABA problem.
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Read more“Multi-Coring" and “Non-Blocking“ instead of "Multi-Threading" - with a Script
April 17, 2018 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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My talk at ACCU2018
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Read moreEight Ways to Handle Non-Blocking Returns in Message-Passing Programs - with Script
October 3, 2017 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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Read moreAllocator for (Re)Actors with Optional Kinda-Safety and Relocation
August 15, 2017 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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Safe with relocation’ mode will allow us to eliminate dreaded ‘external fragmentation’ – which tends to cause quite a bit of trouble for long-running systems
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For a long while, I have been a strong proponent of message-passing mechanisms over mutex-based thread sync for concurrency purposes
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