morning, Corinna > > the thing is that cygwin's pthread_mutex_lock performs quite lazily it > > takes about seven times more than using native critical section.
> Bookkeeping overhead? excuse my unfamiliarity with the matter, but i have no exact idea what bookkeping could be. could you elaborate the answer more, please? or point me to some article/documentation where i can read more? > Just have a look into the Cygwin source. yes, that's first place i tried to look, but got little disoriented with the _ and __ versions of the pthread_mutex_lock. i've eventually finished in __pthread_lock. am i on the right track? > If you want to speed up Cygwin's pthread implementation, feel free to > contribute: http://cygwin.com/contrib.html well i'm using windows and cygwin for few months so i quite don't feel ready... yet ;) best regards, Mojmir -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
