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Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ from Scratch


Why do standard mutex-based queues feel very slow under extreme contention? Lets take a deep dive into the chaotic world of lock-free programming, Hazard Pointers, cache-line optimizations, and C++20 concepts to build a Multi-Producer Multi-Consumer queue that scales to dozens of threads without choking on the OS scheduler.

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