Subj : Re: What is the real costs of LOCK on x86 multiprocesor machine?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Oliver S.
Date : Sat Jul 30 2005 03:57 am

> I stepped through InterlockedIncrement and there definitely IS lock.

And there are also locks on Enter- and LeaveCriticalSection.
MS dropped the two versions of this functions win kernel32.dll
from NT4 to Win2K.

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