Re: Simplest open source database to make lock-free

From: Joe Seigh <jseigh_01_at_xemaps.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:37:52 -0500
Message-ID: <nJ6dnbUDattFfGTenZ2dnUVZ_sydnZ2d_at_comcast.com>

Knut Stolze wrote:
> Christopher Browne wrote:
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>

>>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.

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> 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. 

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