WINE mutex functions speed.

[John Found]

So, thinking about changes in my code, are critical sections faster than mutexes in WINE?

On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:40:01 -0500
Vincent Povirk <madewokherd at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is because every call involving a kernel object handle is done
> via RPC to the wineserver process.
> 
> The semantics of things like DuplicateHandle, and all of the various
> types of waitable kernel objects, need to be reproduced exactly. Even
> in the case of a single object used by a single thread, in order to
> optimize out the wineserver call you'd have to somehow be sure no one
> had duplicated that object into another process. Or you'd have to give
> the wineserver enough information to duplicate it while letting you
> wait for/manipulate the object without an RPC call.
> 
> So, I don't know that it's necessarily a fundamental architecture
> problem, but there's a lot you have to think about. And I can't
> recommend taking on a project like this to a new Wine developer.


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