A Pragmatic Implementation of Non-blocking Linked-Lists

  • Authors:
  • Timothy L. Harris

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • DISC '01 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present a new non-blocking implementation of concurrent linked-lists supporting linearizable insertion and deletion operations. The new algorithm provides substantial benefits over previous schemes: it is conceptually simpler and our prototype operates substantially faster.