Lock-free Rust: Crossbeam in 2019 | Stjepan’s blog

This is a follow-up post to Lock-freedom without garbage collection from 2015, which introduced Crossbeam, a Rust library that implements efficient lock-free data structures without relying on a tracing garbage collector. Crossbeam has gone through a long list of improvements since then, and it’s time to showcase where it’s at today. We’re aiming to provide a rich set of tools for concurrency akin