SPSCQueue.h VS libcds

A triple buffer is a good choice if all you want is polling the latest data at any given time, and you want to avoid mutexes altogether. If you want each piece of data to be delivered exactly once, you can use a queue (bounded or "unlimited" though the latter doesn't supply backpressure which I hear causes problems). SPSC lock-free bounded queues are dead simple to write, and can be tuned for higher throughput even with contention (https://github.com/rigtorp/SPSCQueue claims to be nice, and I haven't had issues working with it aside from having to peek and pop separately, but it's C++, and not a misuse-proof API since it doesn't use the "handles" idea I talked about, and you can push/read/pop from the wrong thread). If you want the reader to poll/WaitForMultipleObjects until the queue has items, that has to be done separately from the SPSC.

And mutexes make a lot of things easier... and introduces "oops wrong mutex!" (Rust solves it) and deadlock (Rust doesn't solve it).

I'm also looking for replacement for concurrent containers: I have used TBB, it's good, though I would like to use the containers only. I have seen some alternatives like https://github.com/khizmax/libcds but didn't have an opportunity to try it yet.