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Deferred Reclamation in C++26: Read-Copy Update and Hazard Pointers

January 27, 2025

Before I dive into lock-free programming, there's a little bit of theory necessary. A common…

std::format Extension

January 20, 2025

Displaying the address of an arbitrary pointer in C++ 20 fails but succeeds with C++26. C++20 Only…

C++26 Library: string and string_view Processing

January 13, 2025

C++26 offers many small improvements around strings and string_views. First of all: What is…

My ALS Journey (19/n): The Never Ending Story

January 4, 2025

Today, I present a sad story, and I can only take it by humor. >> My ALS Journey so far << My…

My Next Mentoring Program: ” Embedded Programming with Modern C++” starts

January 2, 2025

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My next mentoring program, "Embedded Programming with Modern C++," starts on January 31st. Registration…

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December 23, 2024

Make the Difference Let's do something great together: From December 1st to 24th, when you book…

std::execution: More Senders

December 23, 2024

std::execution offers three types of senders: factories, adapters, and consumers. I'll take a closer…

Christmas Special – 5 Days Left

December 19, 2024

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Christmas Special – 7 Days Left

December 17, 2024

Make the Difference Let's do something great together: From December 1st to 24th, when you book…

My ALS Journey (18/n): C++ and ALS

December 16, 2024

Christmas Promotion Let’s do something great together: From December 1st to 24th, when…

std::execution: Sender

December 16, 2024

std::execution offers three types of senders: factories, adapters, and consumers. I'll take a closer…

std::execution: Composition of Senders

December 9, 2024

Most sender adaptors are composable using the pipe operator. Let me start with a simple example…

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Hazard Pointers in C++26May 5, 2025 - 11:12 am
Hazard pointers provide garbage collection in C++ and solve the ABA problem. First of all. What is a hazard pointer? Proposal P2530R3 gives a nice explanation: A hazard pointer is a single-writer multi-reader pointer that can be owned by at most one thread at any time. Only the owner of the hazard pointer can set […]
A Lock-Free Stack: A Hazard Pointer Implementation Explained IIApril 7, 2025 - 11:11 am
In my last post, I started to explain a hazard pointer implementation: A Lock-Free Stack: A Hazard Pointer Implementation Explained I. Today, I will continue to explain the implementation. The Retire List The retire list has the public member functions isInUse, addNode, and deleteUnusedNodes. Additionally, it has the inner class RetireNode, an atomic member of […]
A Lock-Free Stack: A Hazard Pointer Implementation Explained IMarch 24, 2025 - 11:37 am
In my last post, I presented a hazard pointer implementation: A Lock-Free Stack: A Hazard Pointer Implementation. Today, I will explain the implementation. MyNode is a class template, parametrized by the type it holds: data. MyNode models the concept Node. template <typename T> concept Node = requires(T a) { {T::data}; { *a.next } -> std::same_as<T&>; […]
A Lock-Free Stack: A Hazard Pointer ImplementationMarch 10, 2025 - 11:42 am
Hazard Pointers solve all issues of the previous implementation: A Lock-Free Stack: A Simple Garbage Collector. From one Week to two Weeks You may have already noticed. I will change my blog publishing frequency from one to two weeks in the future. Writing a post using your voice is exceptionally exhausting and time-consuming. Hazard Pointers […]
A Lock-Free Stack: A Simple Garbage CollectorFebruary 24, 2025 - 11:58 am
My next lock-free stack includes a simple garbage collector. I discussed the concurrent execution of more than one topAndPush call is a Race Condition. I can safely delete a node if not more than one topAndPush call is executing concurrently. This observation is crucial for solving this memory leak issue: I store removed nodes on […]
A Lock-Free Stack: Atomic Smart PointerFebruary 17, 2025 - 11:47 am
The easiest way to solve this memory leak issue from the last post is to use a std::shared_ptr. Atomic Smart Pointer There are two ways to apply atomic operations on a std::shared_ptr: In C++11, you can use the free atomic functions on std::shared_ptr. With C++20, you can use atomic smart pointers. C++11 Using atomic operations […]