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read-copy-update
- Feb 17, 2026 Read-Copy-Update: Publishing New Versions and Waiting Out Old Readers How RCU lets readers run without any synchronization instruction at all, what a grace period must prove before memory can be freed, and where the approach stops working. operating systems
- Jul 24, 2025 Memory Reclamation for Lock-Free Structures Hazard pointers, epoch-based reclamation, and reference counting compared by what they cost on the read path, when memory is actually returned, and which failure they tolerate. systems programming