[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: > Does anybody have any idea how often this case occurs with typical > activities like compilation?
What's the point of the question: to decide if we can ignore the issue, or to decide if the solution has to be terribly efficient? > With the current code, dependent modifications of A, B, A, results in > > modify(A); sync > modify(B); sync > modify(A); synced sometime later > > The new scheme would change that to > > modify(A); > modify(B); noting dependency > sync(A); > modify(A); note new dependency > > all assuming that so spontaneous syncing occurs between the > modifications. So in this case we save one sync. Did I get this right? Yes. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd