Monthly Archives: July 2016

Parallel Programming: July 2016 Update

This release of Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? has some really nice updates:     PDFs now have hyperlinks from each quick quiz to its answer, and each answer has hyperlinks to … Continue reading

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Stupid RCU Tricks: An Early-1970s Example

Up to now, I have been calling out Kung’s and Lehman’s classic 1980 “Concurrent Manipulation of Binary Search Trees” as the oldest mention of something vaguely resembling RCU. However, while looking into the history of reference counting, I found Weizenbaum’s … Continue reading

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