Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling

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concurrent data structures becomes increasingly important. Usually these data Node* next = (key < iter->key) ? iter->left : iter->right; currentLock = next ? &next->lock : nullptr; in practice. Every lookup goes through the root node, thus the root node is constantly locked and unlocked.

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