Re: [GD-General] cross platform 64bit lock free FIFO?

[Andras B. <and...@gm...>]

> Typically, a lock-free FIFO supports only a single writer and a single
> reader. If that's all you need, then you don't even need the special
> instructions, because the writer will always write the same variable,
> and the reader will always read the other same variable. If your cache
> is not 100% read-after-write coherent, then you may have a temporary
> situation where there's something written that the reader doesn't yet
> see (or vice versa), but on Intel, that can never happen.

Yes, I only need one writer and one reader thread, but I'm not sure that I  
understand the solution you propose. Could you elaborate a bit? Thanks,


Andras