Atomic Instruction Samples

[twood02]

Lock-free data structures can improve performance compared to traditional locks by using atomic instructions such as compare and swap. For this issue you should write code that demonstrates how to use these instructions to build basic synchronization mechanisms like locks for a multi-threaded program.

You should coordinate with #44 to evaluate the performance of both the regular locks and your lock-free versions.

For example, you could write a program that measures the number of times per second a multi-threaded program can increment a counter, either by using standard mutexes or by using atomic instructions.

Put your code in threads/atomics. Include some documentation to explain how these work and links to relevant reference material.

[wenhuizhang]

Prof. do you mind if assign this issue to us ?
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