Comment by manish_gill

Learning Lock-Free Data Structures:

- https://parallelthoughts.xyz/2026/03/cas-me-if-you-can-part-...

- https://parallelthoughts.xyz/2026/06/cas-me-if-you-can-part-...

- https://parallelthoughts.xyz/2026/07/cas-me-if-you-can-part-...

Mostly me exploring how to build a Treiber Stack (first in Go, then in C++) -> Figuring out ABA and Use-After-Free in the C++ implementation, and then touching a bit of Hazard Pointers, and ending with a benchmark comparison b/w a mutex and a lock-free version of the stack.

LLMs are a great tool at teaching and explaining. I don't use it to generate code, but it takes away the pain of searching and setting up dependencies, tools, etc. So I can focus only on the concepts and then do the testing.

It is not perfect, but I learned something that I did not know thanks to these techniques. And that too without reading dense and obscure books. I love it.