Progressive Locks : fast, upgradable read/write locksContext A few years after I created the Elastic Binary Trees (ebtree), I started to get some feedback from users who needed to use them in multi-threaded environments, asking if an MT-safe version was available. By then, nothing was available, and all I could suggest them was to place some locks around all the tree manipulation code. While this generally works well, it was sub-optimal because thes
