Tagged “Concurrency”

1. Benchmarking Reader-Writer Lock Performance Jan 18, 2021

   Benchmark results for two popular reader-writer lock implementations, with tentative explanations for the patterns they reveal.

2. Accelerating Map Multi-Lookup with Coroutines Sep 1, 2020

   Using C++20 coroutines to hide memory stall latency during bulk lookups on a hashtable larger than last-level cache.

3. Awaitable System Timers Aug 25, 2020

   Building an awaitable timer on top of native system timer facilities, as a template for integrating coroutines with any asynchronous system event.

4. Coroutine Composition with Tasks Aug 6, 2020

   Exploring the semantics of coroutine composition through a deliberately simplified implementation of the task type.

5. Building With C++ Coroutines: Series Introduction Aug 5, 2020

   An introduction to a series on C++20 coroutines, and why they offer an elegant solution to the problem of asynchronous state management.