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		snarfy on July 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Wait-Free Stack > Subsequently, it is lazily deleted by a cleanup operation. So, it's wait free until this happens?

kasey_junk on July 17, 2016 [–]

No, the cleanup operation is also wait free, which they claim is what makes this novel.

blaisio on July 17, 2016 | [–]

Ah, they should really have put that in the description because otherwise this doesn't seem like that great of an achievement.

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