Improving IPC

Some ideas that have been around for a while need reexamining now and then. Take interprocess communication via shared memory, for example. It's not a new concept—in fact, it's a staple of software engineering. But that doesn't mean it can't be improved. Alexander Dokumentov presents four algorithms for lock-free IPC that don't depend on atomic processor instructions.

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