Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Meet the Lockers [LWN.net]

Meet the Lockers [LWN.net]: "That younger generation are the twins - RCU and his sister Seqlock. They both grew up in the shadow of Sir Spinlock's dominance of multiprocessing and each reacted in their own way. They have both learned the importance of stability but were culturally more focused on the appearance than the reality, and technologically more inventive in how to provide it."