Synchronization Primitives
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The Cost of Atomic Operations
This chapter explores the cost of atomic operations in lock-free programming, discussing how it depends on memory models, concurrency requirements, and memory access patterns. They highlight the potential expenses of using true atomic operations on x86 and the increased cost with shared memory accesses. Additionally, they touch on transactional memory standardization in C++ and question its relevance outside of Intel and power architectures.
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