Message passing between threads: Java 4 times faster than D

[David Nadlinger]

On 2/9/12 11:17 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> I didn't yet got around to polish my lock-free SList/DList implementations,
>> but mutexes should only become a problem with high contention when you need to block.
>> You'd also would need some kind of blocking for lock-free lists.
>
> No blocking should be necessary for the lock-free list.  Just try to steal a node with a CAS.  If the result was null (i.e. if the list ended up being empty), allocate a node via malloc/GC.

And the neat thing is that you don't have to worry about node deletion 
as much when you have a GC…

David