From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-08 17:29:06
On Feb 8, 2008, at 5:14 PM, Peter Dimov wrote:
> Howard Hinnant:
>
>> Here are results (dating around 3 years ago):
>>
>> In order: 63 seconds.
>> try/back off/without yield: 47 seconds.
>> try/back off/with yield: 34 seconds.
>
> With Alexander Terekhov's "swap-based mutex", I'm not seeing a
> significant
> difference between the versions with and without yield. The penalty
> likely
> comes from spin-waits in lock() (which is why they're evil).
Hey, would you mind running against lock-in-order? I'd love to
confirm what I've been preachin'. ;-) Or if you see lock-in-order as
better, then better for me to hear it sooner rather than later...
Thanks,
Howard