Something Something Lock-Free Collections

[reem]

Some experiments in https://github.com/reem/rust-lockfree, my goal is to build a bunch of primitives then a POC spsc queue (then maybe mpsc or mpmc if I have time to learn C++ and read boost::lockfree), which might want to be integrated into collect-rs, though I don't think all the primitives (atomic buffer etc.) should necessarily go here so as to avoid clutter.

[cgaebel]

Didn't rust have a high performance spsc (et. al.) queue at some point?

[reem]

Channels are based on a locking mpsc queue that's in sync or comm or something, I don't know if it's exported anymore.

[cgaebel]

I doubt it is. We should start addressing this bug by cribbing old rustc implementations.