Lock Free Glossary

Browse 2 lock free terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 Lock Free Terms

Read-Copy-Update: A synchronization mechanism used heavily in the Linux kernel that allows readers to access shared data structures without acquiring any locks, while writers...
Transactional Memory: A concurrency control mechanism that allows a block of memory read/write operations to execute atomically and in isolation — like a database transaction but...