Subj : Re: What is the real costs of LOCK on x86 multiprocesor machine?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Sun Jul 31 2005 02:47 pm


"Joe Seigh" <jseigh_01@xemaps.com> wrote in message 
news:6NGdnY-F0usfJXHfRVn-pQ@comcast.com...

> Now that a lot of people have weighed in on this, why does the cost of
> atomic increment/decrement matter?

    A lot if you're deciding whether or not keeping count of things is worth 
the overhead in a release build.

    DS

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