Crossbeam Epoch

This crate provides epoch-based garbage collection for building concurrent data structures.

When a thread removes an object from a concurrent data structure, other threads may be still using pointers to it at the same time, so it cannot be destroyed immediately. Epoch-based GC is an efficient mechanism for deferring destruction of shared objects until no pointers to them can exist.

Everything in this crate except the global GC can be used in no_std environments, provided that features alloc and nightly are enabled.

Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
crossbeam-epoch = "0.7"

Next, add this to your crate:

extern crate crossbeam_epoch as epoch;

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.