king-etc / queues

A public domain lock free queues implemented in C++11

Lock Free Queues

Public domain implementation of four different lock free queues:

• SPSC lock free dynamic queue which requires a memory allocation with each insert.
• MPSC lock free dynamic queue which requires a memory allocation with each insert.
• SPSC wait free bound queue/ring buffer which which uses a fixed size pre-allocated buffer.
• MPMC lock free bound queue/ring buffer which which uses a fixed size pre-allocated buffer.

Performance

These number are on my Early 2013 Retina Macbook Pro (2.7 GHz i7). The latency variability of memory allocation can have a signifigant impact on the dynamic queues, sometimes halving throughput.

Queue	Throughput
SPSC dynamic	8 million
MPSC dynamic	8 million
SPSC fixed	200 million
MPMC fixed	54 million