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# Wormhole4j v0.3.0: Adding Multi-threaded Concurrency

## 1. Introduction

- Quick recap of Wormhole4j
- What changed in v0.3.0 (real multi-thread support)
- Why this matters

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## 2. The Problem

- Ordered index + concurrency is tricky
- Structural changes (split/merge) make it harder
- Goal: fast reads without blocking

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## 3. The Approach (High-level)

- Three types of operations:
  - reads
  - local updates
  - structural updates
- Key idea: treat them differently

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## 4. Key Design Ideas

- Leaf-level locking (localized writes)
- Double meta tables (RCU-style switching)
- QSBR for safe handover
- Versioning + retry for consistency

(Keep this concise—just intuition, not deep details)

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## 5. One Concrete Example (Split)

- Walk through what happens during a split
- Highlight the tricky part:
  - switching meta table + version ordering
- This is the “real” explanation section

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## 6. What Was Hard

- Subtle ordering bugs
- Retry logic
- Concurrency is harder than it looks

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## 7. Testing with Lincheck

- Why it was needed
- What kinds of bugs it found
- Short takeaway

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## 8. Results and Takeaways

- High-level performance observations
- Where it works well / where it doesn’t
- Final thoughts