Hello! Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes:
> Dunno, in GStreamer we found that uncontended locks are cheap cheap > cheap. AFAIU they don't even cause context switches. On GNU/Linux they are implemented using futexes and the kernel is not invoked when there's no contention. Still, I would measure the impact on `module-define!' and `module-ref' because that's at least an additional function call. Thanks, Ludo'.
