Subj : Re: speed-up critical regions To : comp.programming.threads From : Markus Elfring Date : Thu Jun 16 2005 10:55 pm > Unfortunatelly this is not solving the problem. The locks are still needed. But not in all approaches. It depends on your design decisions. Would you like to try alternatives? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-blocking_synchronization - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_management Regards, Markus .