{"id":1193233,"date":"2023-10-17T10:48:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T14:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1193233"},"modified":"2023-10-17T10:48:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T14:48:10","slug":"improving-c-library-scalability-with-restartable-sequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1193233","title":{"rendered":"[$] Improving C-library scalability with restartable sequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Linux kernel has supported <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/697979\/\">restartable<br \/>\nsequences<\/a> (sometimes referred to as &#8220;RSEQ&#8221;) since 2018, but it remains<br \/>\na bit of a niche feature, mostly useful to performance-oriented developers<br \/>\nwho do not mind writing assembly code.  According to Mathieu Desnoyers, the<br \/>\nbehind the kernel&#8217;s implementation of restartable sequences, this feature<br \/>\ncan be applicable to a much wider range of performance-sensitive code with<br \/>\nproper library support.  He came to the <a href=\"https:\/\/gcc.gnu.org\/wiki\/cauldron2023\">2023 GNU Tools Cauldron<\/a> to<br \/>\npresent the case for use of restartable sequences within the GNU C Library<br \/>\n(glibc).&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: LWN.net &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/946870\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[$] Improving C-library scalability with restartable sequences<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Linux kernel has supported restartable sequences (sometimes referred to as &#8220;RSEQ&#8221;) since 2018, but it remains a bit of a niche feature, mostly useful to performance-oriented developers who do not mind writing assembly code. According to Mathieu Desnoyers, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1193233\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1193233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}