Lock-Free C++ Mastery: Architecting Wait-Free Data Structures and Memory Models for Multi-Core CPUs.

By: S. Lightner, Billie

Stop Pausing Your Threads. Master the Dark Arts of Lock-Free C++ and Achieve Extreme Multi-Core Scaling.

As core counts push past 64 and 128, legacy synchronization mechanisms are failing. Relying on std:: mutex introduces catastrophic context switching, cache invalidation storms, and unpredictable latency spikes that can crash a high-frequency trading engine or throttle a game's framerate. Lock-Free C++ Mastery is the definitive engineering manual for breaking through the "Concurrency Wall" and building ultra-fast, wait-free architectures.

Moving far beyond basic multithreading, this book dives straight into the silicon. You will learn to bypass the OS scheduler entirely, manipulating the C++ memory model and hardware caches to build lock-free queues, wait-free ring buffers, and concurrent hash maps that scale linearly under massive contention.
Inside, you will discover: Hardware Realities: Master the MESI protocol, defeat false sharing, and mitigate NUMA latency penalties to keep your execution paths blisteringly fast.The C++ Memory Model: Stop guessing. Learn exactly when to use Sequential Consistency, Acquire-Release semantics, and the highly dangerous Relaxed memory ordering.Safe Memory Reclamation (SMR): Solve the dreaded ABA problem and safely reclaim memory using Epoch-Based Reclamation (EBR), RCU, and C++26 Hazard Pointers.Lock-Free Architectures: Step-by-step implementations for SPSC/MPMC Ring Buffers, Unbounded Michael-Scott Queues, Treiber Stacks, and Split-Ordered Hash Maps.The Wait-Free Holy Grail: Design fast-path/slow-path fallbacks specifically engineered for hard real-time constraints and P99.99 latency benchmarking in trading engines.Testing & Verification: Tame the state space explosion. Learn to flush out impossible-to-reproduce "Heisenbugs" using ThreadSanitizer (TSan) and formal Relacy model checking.THE IMPLEMENTATION VAULT (Appendix)

Built for the performance architect in the trenches, the Appendix provides immediate, drop-in utility: The C++ Memory Ordering Cheat Sheet: Your definitive map for navigating std:: atomic barriers without sacrificing throughput.The Universal CAS Loop Template: A battle-tested blueprint for Compare-And-Swap operations.Troubleshooting the Top 10 Concurrency Heisenbugs: Direct solutions for the most devastating, silent failures in lock-free code.Don't let OS locks throttle your hardware. Master lock-free execution and build the fastest, most scalable concurrent systems in your industry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZDZP6S3
• ISBN13: 9798195349868
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"