Quant Interview Practice Questions

In low-latency quantitative trading systems, lock-free data structures are essential for maximizing throughput and minimizing execution delays. Hazard pointers provide a safe memory reclamation strategy to prevent the ABA problem and use-after-free bugs by allowing threads to announce which memory addresses they are currently reading. Task Implement a HazardPointerManager class to simulate a hazard pointer memory reclamation strategy. You must support the following operations: void acquire(in