Hello! I'm working on multithread code, and in some functions I need to access some variables very often. In result I lock and unlock mutex protecting these variables all the time. It affects performance very bad.
I figured out, that I can use atomic operation (provided by GLib) to decrease mutex usage. I can store many things in one volatile gint variable thanks to bits manipulation. However I don't know if performing many atomic operations on one variable in MT code is a good idea. Morover I'd like to know if GLib guarantees, that atomic operations will be thread safe on all platforms supported by GLib. Maybe there are some other contraindications, that I should use mutex protection instead of atomic operations. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
