I don't think I understand what mutexes are really anymore <cry>

Can you explain why turning a mutex lock on makes it faster?

What is the difference between when the mutex is off and when it's on?

Julian.


On 17/09/2008, at 3:57 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote:

>
> After John Bressnik from SDRuby asked questions about Merb mutex, I
> run some benchmarks.
>
> I was hitting a controller making 1 simple DB request and I couldn't
> see a difference between the mutex lock being on or off.
>
> I then added a sleep of 0.1 in the controller are here are the  
> dramatic results:
>
> http://gist.github.com/11201
>
> Requests per second:    9.81 [#/sec] (mean) with mutex on VS Requests
> per second:    83.26 [#/sec] (mean) mutex off
>
> The benchmark app was using DM.
>
> -Matt
>
> >


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