Sunnyvale: Lockfree Queues with C++ Atomics

The siren song of lock-free data structures beckons. Who could resist the opportunity to avoid the shores of lock contention, only to crash against the rocks of race conditions? In this talk, a simple lock-free queue shall be designed, showing both the performance benefits of using C++11 atomic operations and just how hard it is to avoid race conditions, even for such a simple data structure.

Our speaker, Jeff Cohen, is a certified language nerd. He has been using C++ since cfront was a thing.