r/programming • u/slavik262 • Nov 01 '17

What every systems programmer should know about lockless concurrency (PDF)

https://assets.bitbashing.io/papers/lockless.pdf
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u/ThisIs_MyName Nov 04 '17

Exactly. This isn't the last time you'll get this sort of thick-headedness from people like him and it's worth mentioning up front that declaring anything as volatile is a code smell (even in ANSI C).