Lock-Free Queue and Compare-And-Swap - Quant Trader Interview Question
Difficulty: Hard
Category: Algorithms & Data Structures
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Topics: concurrency, lock-free, CAS, queue, algorithms
Problem Description
You are designing a high-throughput, low-latency queue for processing market data. You choose to implement a lock-free queue using Compare-And-Swap (CAS) operations. What fundamental problem does using CAS to manage concurrency solve compared to using mutex locks in this specific context?
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