doors IPC

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.com
Wed May 9 13:03:46 CDT 2001


Marcus Meissner <marcus at jet.franken.de> writes:

> Since critical sections are thought to be 'fast' and 'short time' locking
> primitives, and Win32 threads should not sleep in a critical section,
> we can just give up our timeslice and wait for the other thread that
> has the lock to continue.

Well, there are tons of places where we will sleep inside a critical
section, so it could potentially burn a lot of CPU. That doesn't
necessarily make it slower, but it would probably impact other
applications more. As usual, the only way to tell is to do benchmarks.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com




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