"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PS: Besides: what are speed costs of LOCK INC <mem> ? > > That very much depends on the implementation. In > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2001-03/msg00132.html > Hans Boehm claims it's 15 cycles.
I think that has to be on a single processor, or at most a dual core processor with shared cache on die. With multiple cpu chips I don't think can get the signals around that fast. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
