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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2003
Paul A. Martin, Arlington, MA (US);
Guy L. Steele, Jr., Lexington, MA (US);
Nir N. Shavit, Cambridge, MA (US);
Steven K. Heller, Acton, MA (US);
Mark S. Moir, Somerville, MA (US);
Victor M. Luchangco, Arlington, MA (US);
Paul A. Martin, Arlington, MA (US);
Guy L. Steele, Jr., Lexington, MA (US);
Nir N. Shavit, Cambridge, MA (US);
Steven K. Heller, Acton, MA (US);
Mark S. Moir, Somerville, MA (US);
Victor M. Luchangco, Arlington, MA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A set of structures and techniques are described herein whereby an exemplary concurrent shared object, namely a shared skip list, can be implemented in a lock-free manner. Indeed, we have developed a number of interesting variants of a lock-free shared skip-list, including variants that may be employed to provide a lock-free shared dictionary. In some variants, a key-value dictionary is implemented.