Subj : Re: double-checked locking in C
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Date : Thu Jul 07 2005 01:46 pm

Laurent Deniau <Laurent.Deniau@cern.ch> writes:

> So it seems that there is no way to make it efficient. An intermediate
> solution would be to use pthread_once. It is faster than lock (at
> least on my OS) but much slower than DCL.

If it could be made faster, a good implementation of pthread_once
would have done that, modulo only function call overhead.

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