vZOOM POSIX/Lock-Based PDR patent publication...

[Chris Thomasson]

This is the POSIX/Lock-Based version of vZOOM PDR...

Patent Pub# 20070067770
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The patent publication for the vZOOM Memory Allocator should arrive in a
year-and-a-half or two:

http://appcore.home.comcast.net/vzoom/round-2.pdf
(section 1.1 ... brief)

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.arch/browse_frm/thread/24c40d42a04ee855
(brief intro...)

The POSIX PDR is extremely portable. It can run on virtually all pthread
enables machines...

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming.threads/msg/59e9b6e427b4a144
(quick description of above patent...)

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming.threads/msg/b7814ee86cd4b54d
(portable POSIX membar for lock-free reader pattern...)

you can implement the scenario with the lock-based pdr described in section
3 (its on the last page) of the following paper:

http://appcore.home.comcast.net/vzoom/round-1.pdf