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Beautiful

Posted Feb 7, 2008 5:06 UTC (Thu) by walken (subscriber, #7089)
In reply to: Beautiful by elanthis
Parent article: Ticket spinlocks

I think the "lamport's bakery" algorithm is similar to this. There may be subtle differences
though, I'm not an expert in locking algorithms...

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