Subj : Re: Challenge: Multithreading & Synchronization
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Butenhof
Date : Thu May 19 2005 12:44 pm

Uenal Mutlu wrote:
> "David Butenhof" wrote
> 
> The overall performance of the latter was better than the performance of the
> first approach. This is so because the queue operations had a higher overhead
> than the usual context switching overhead.

Yes, I suppose that if you manage to make your queuing operations bad 
enough, you can make just about anything else look better. I'm 
astonished that you could manage this feat, but I can't claim it's 
impossible.

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Dave Butenhof, David.Butenhof@hp.com
HP Utility Pricing software, POSIX thread consultant
Manageability Solutions Lab (MSL), Hewlett-Packard Company
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