Yeah the code uses lock a fair bit. As I understand it the primary use  
of lock in this application is around an instruction tree to be  
processed.

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On Feb 23, 2009, at 12:02, Chris Howie <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Aaron Knister <[email protected] 
> > wrote:
>> Does anybody have an idea as to why it's spending so much time  
>> calling futex
>> and rt_sigsuspend?
>
> Well, futex does userspace locking, and it's possible that Mono uses
> this when locking on objects.  Do you use lock(){} a lot?
>
> -- 
> Chris Howie
> http://www.chrishowie.com
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers
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