Dear Igor,
Igor Kovalenko writes:
> Makes me wonder... perhaps now someone will be convinced to take a look
> at the POSIX IPC patch. On some platforms (not on Linux I am afraid)
> POSIX mutexes might be quite a bit faster than SYSV semaphores.
Yes, but on the SGI platform, the MIPS test_and_set instructions are
really fast and should be used.
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