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Re: [PATCH] new mutex implementation 2. posting



On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 01:47, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > I haven't been following very closely.  Is the reason why we are not using
> > critical sections that TryEnterCriticalSection isn't available anywhere?
> > If so, then we can probably fix that with some assembly programming.
>
> Thats a factor, yes.
>
> > Critical sections are *so* much faster than mutexes or semaphores that
> > it makes sense to use them if possible.
> >
> > Or, maybe we're talking about something else entirely...
>
> Well there are two things. Thomas's work gives use recursive and error
> checking mutexes, which aren't currently supported. He also points out
> that semaphores leverage critical sections on NT, so should be ~ in
> speed.
>

???

I said that my implementation works similar as critical sections (or Chris
mutos).

Thomas


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