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Don't you lose all of your performance gains in RPC overhead? How do you avoid latency in the data thread (do you have one thread per lockable object? won't that be more than 1 thread per core?) - these are the reasons lock-free is so popular.



> Don't you lose all of your performance gains in RPC overhead?

If one did, then why would anyone who knew what they were talking about (or even just knew how to write and use a decent performance test) advocate this method? :)




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