Subj : Best locking methods
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Uenal Mutlu
Date : Wed Apr 06 2005 07:29 pm

What is the best (fastest) method to synchronize access
to a memory block which is shared by say 5 reader threads
and 5 writer threads? The memblock can be realloced by
the writers and hence the pointer can change.
Platform is x86 Linux and Windows.

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