Knut Stolze wrote:
> Christopher Browne wrote:
>
>
>>Oops! Joe Seigh <jseigh_01_at_xemaps.com> was seen spray-painting on a wall:
>>
>>>What open source databases would be good candidates
>>>to reimplement as lock-free (or mostly so)?
>>
>>I'd think that that represents a sufficiently extensive change that
>>you'd likely have to create something new from scratch.
>
>
> You think so? If the system in question is properly modularized and small
> enough, you might away without too much work.
>
That's what I was hoping for. Particularly with respect to the data
structures since that's the thing lock-free really works off of.
If there's a clean and well modularized api, it's easier than if the
code accesses the data structures directly from about 500 different
places.
--
Joe Seigh
When you get lemons, you make lemonade.
When you get hardware, you make software.
Received on Mon Feb 20 2006 - 09:37:52 CST
