The World's Highest Throughput Concurrent Queue

David Stone (Uber) will present:

The concurrent queue is the basic data structure for multithreaded communication, and needs to be fast. This presentation covers the design, implementation, and use of a concurrent queue that:

• can push through billions of messages/second on standard consumer hardware (for instance, a laptop)
• allows a theoretically unbounded number of producers and consumers
• places no restrictions on the types contained
• is sequentially consistent
• has an obvious, value-oriented interface
• is almost obviously data-race-free by inspection
• is released under an open source license (Boost Software License)

Nothing is free, and getting this performance with all of these guarantees required giving up one guarantee: the lock-free guarantee. This presentation will explain just what the lock-free guarantee is, and what it means, in practical terms, to not have it. This queue will be compared to many others: Moody Camel, Boost, Intel, and Folly. You can get the source code at: https://github.com/davidstone/concurrent-queue

Gluten free ;-) food and drink will be provided by our awesome sponsors!

Come join the fun and discussion.