Subj : Re: Challenge: Multithreading & Synchronization
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Sergei Organov
Date : Thu May 19 2005 05:11 pm

"Uenal Mutlu" <520001085531-0001@t-online.de> writes:

[...]
> But if the data objects are independent of each other then it is
> more efficient to let each have its own mutex.

Well, in a 3D-vector coordinates X, Y, and Z are independent in the same
sense your data items are independent. The question is: is it more
efficient to let each coordinate have its own mutex?

-- 
Sergei.

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