Linear Lower Bounds on Real-World Implementations of Concurrent Objects

  • Authors:
  • Faith Ellen Fich;Danny Hendler;Nir Shavit

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Toronto;University of Toronto;Sun Microsystems Laboratories

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '05 Proceedings of the 46th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper proves \Omega (\pi ) lower bounds on the time to perform a singleinstance of an operation in any implementation of a large class of data structures shared by (\pi ) processes. For standard data structures such as counters, stacks, and queues, the bound is tight. The implementations considered may apply any deterministic primitives to a base object. No bounds are assumed on either the number of base objects or their size. Time is measured as the number of steps a process performs on base objects and the number of stalls it incurs as a result of contention with other processes.