Re: [boost] win32 mutex and condition variable algorithms

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov@mmltd.net> writes:

Peter Dimov wrote:

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This is what CRITICAL_SECTIONs do, and I recall being told by Alexander Terekhov that it is suboptimal (threads take the slow path when they could take the fast path). My tests with a contended queue seemed to prove him right.

Unfortunately, I can no longer find his post where he explained that with Google.

Here it is:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/boost/2122746

Thanks. I'll have to look at Alexander's proposed swap-based implementation. Anthony -- Anthony Williams Software Developer Just Software Solutions Ltd http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk