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How to implement a Thread-Safe Lock-Free Object Pool in C++17 [Part 4]

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3y ago · Sep 16, 2022 11:56 AM
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A lock-free object pool using a tagged atomic pointer (combining pointer address with a 16-bit generation counter) to completely eliminate the ABA problem in CAS operations.
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3y ago · Sep 16, 2022 3:23 PM
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Worker threads rent pre-allocated instances with O(1) atomic exchange and return them without mutex contention.
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3y ago · Sep 16, 2022 4:23 PM
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This reduced our dynamic allocation overhead in our networking packet dispatcher from 8% CPU down to zero.
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