Re: Default Linux mutex method

[Jim Jagielski]

Of course, it depends on the number of threads, natch...

> On Apr 3, 2017, at 2:07 PM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote:
> 
> Using:
> 
>    https://github.com/jimjag/benchmarks/blob/master/lock/lock_test.c
> 
> under OSX/macOS, pthread_mutex_lock is much quicker. Which makes
> sense since sysv sems and posix sems do much more than simply
> "lock"