I am confused to hell. I always thought MIPS does NOT have TAS instruction ;)
"Robert E. Bruccoleri" wrote: > > Dear Igor, > > Igor Kovalenko writes: > > > Makes me wonder... perhaps now someone will be convinced to take a look > > at the POSIX IPC patch. On some platforms (not on Linux I am afraid) > > POSIX mutexes might be quite a bit faster than SYSV semaphores. > > Yes, but on the SGI platform, the MIPS test_and_set instructions are > really fast and should be used. > > +-----------------------------+------------------------------------+ > | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | P.O. Box 314 | URL: http://www.congen.com/~bruc | > | Pennington, NJ 08534 | | > +-----------------------------+------------------------------------+ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
