Circular lock-free buffer

Question

I\'m in the process of designing a system which connects to one or more stream of data feeds and do some analysis on the data than trigger events based on the result. In a t

Answer 1

The term of art for what you want is a lock-free queue. There's an excellent set of notes with links to code and papers by Ross Bencina. The guy whose work I trust the most is Maurice Herlihy (for Americans, he pronounces his first name like "Morris").