On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 23:43 +0200, jaromil wrote:
> > i think mostly because in 2000-2001, they were very slow.
>
> IMHO they are still slow, especially when you port software to OSX then
> pthreads and semaphores are *very* slow (well, it depends how much and
> where you use them of course).
OSX? Although I can see your argument (of convenience), it has no
beaeing to the implementation in linux. If you say that Darwin is
lacking, then fix it or use Linux, no?
>
> my solution so far is assuming that boolean is atomical.
> all multi threaded handling i wrote is based on this assumption: i use
> it in pipe and linklist classes, but semaphores could also be there.
>
> i found no probems and good speed so far
> ... and life is boring without risks :))
>
... and sooner or later we will find an update for
multi-processors. :-D
> ciao
cheers!
