The software should build out of the box on any x86_64 based machine with a modern C
compiler. We rely on the standard atomics library
that is part of C11. We have tested the software as thoroughly as we could on both
Darwin and Linux.
make
followed by
make check
should do some rudimentary tests.
make stress
is a much more strenuous set of tests. Be patient, it takes about a week.
The algorithm we use is inspired by a paper by Tobias Maier, arxiv, but is different in several important aspects. The most noticable difference is that we do not mark the keys before they are copied, but rather require the threads to copy before marking.