Thin Locks in D

[Leandro Lucarella]

Jesse Phillips, el 26 de julio a las 17:27 me escribiste:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:06:22 -0300, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> 
> > superdan, el 25 de julio a las 13:17 me escribiste:
> >> Leandro Lucarella Wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Sean Kelly, el 24 de julio a las 23:09 me escribiste:
> >> > > Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> >> > > >"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message
> >> > > >news:g6b1ae$up4$1 at digitalmars.com...
> >> > > >>http://bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/thin-locks-in-d/
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >>and of course on reddit:
> >> > > >>
> >> > > >>http://www.reddit.com/comments/6tbzc/thin_locks_in_d/
> >> > > >I remember reading somewhere that critical-sections on Windows do
> >> > > >just that.
> >> > > 
> >> > > They pretty much do.  And futexes are largely the same thing in
> >> > > Linux.
> >> > 
> >> > So, why D must reinvent the wheel, duplicating a well known technique
> >> > done in most modern OS? This will only add overhead to D.
> >> > 
> >> > Please, at least make it conditional only to OSs that don't provide
> >> > this optimization by themselves.
> >> 
> >> there is no reinvention. the man quotes his sources. at most there is
> >> reimplementation. and that's unavoidable as far as i understand. thin
> >> locks must be integrated with the object model so they place that word
> >> right there and do shit with it.
> > 
> > Then please don't add this at all! It's a little lame add overhead to
> > all modern OS just to be a babysitter of poor ones.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that just because your OS handles multi-threading this 
> way that your program won't just automatically inherit it. When you right 
> your program, you have to handle all the synchronous issues yourself, 
> otherwise all this multi-threading business would be a snap.

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