DMD 1.029 and 2.013 releases

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Sun Apr 27 07:56:39 PDT 2008


Walter Bright wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> An OS call isn't always involved.  See, for example: 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futex.
> 
> Then you can write the mutex as your own external function which cannot 
> be inlined.

And perhaps write portions of that mutex as separate external functions 
to prevent reordering within the mutex code itself... surely you can see 
why this isn't terribly appealing.


Sean


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