294 Subj : Re: Deadlock theorem To : comp.programming.threads From : Uenal Mutlu Date : Tue May 03 2005 08:26 pm Just a minor correction: "Uenal Mutlu" wrote > > The objects are locked automatically in the most efficent way > for the least necessary time (ie. no object is locked unnecessarily > (and by this blocking other threads) compared to other methods > of locking a group of objects). That is: a group locking is performed > by locking items in the group individually. IMO this individual locking > method is faster than to lock just the group container. By "faster" I of course mean "faster in term of application performance". . 0