Lock Free
Everything on SkillVeris tagged Lock Free — collected across the glossary, study notes, blog, and cheat sheets.
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What Are Lock-Free Data Structures?
A lock-free data structure guarantees system-wide progress without using mutexes, by relying on atomic hardware primitives like compare-and-swap (CAS) so that…
What is the Compare-and-Swap (CAS) Instruction?
Compare-and-swap (CAS) is an atomic CPU instruction that reads a memory location, compares it to an expected value, and only writes a new value if the comparis…
What Are Atomic Operations in an Operating System?
An atomic operation is one that executes as a single, indivisible step from the perspective of every other thread or CPU core, so no concurrent operation can e…