Re: Concurrent free-lock - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Concurrent free-lock
Date
Msg-id 1106725511.31592.270.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Concurrent free-lock  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 13:30 +1100, Neil Conway wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > The one factor which stands out for me from this is that Keir Fraser's
> > and Tim Harris' algorithms are available as *code*, which additionally
> > are covered by a licence which appears to be an MIT/BSD variant licence.
> 
> If you're referring to their "Lock-free library", that is licensed under 
> the GPL.

Maybe, but the one we want is not on the GPL.

This is the code that is recommended in the summary of lock-free
methods:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/lock-free/

libstm-v1.tar.gz

-- 
Best Regards, Simon Riggs



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