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Subj : Re: Futexes are wrong! (Are they?)
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Sun Jun 12 2005 02:33 pm


"David Hopwood" <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:RAWqe.2964$ZG3.346@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...

> David Schwartz wrote:

>> "Jomu" <dragisha@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> And that lot is simply not impressing me. 15000 context switches per
>>>second brokes no sweat on $100 P4 CPU.

>>     This is your fundamental mistake, and you make it over and over. You 
>> should not be designing to an implementation but to a standard.

> It's silly to say that you shouldn't take into account the performance of
> widely available hardware.

    Even at the architectural level?

    DS

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