synchronized (this[.classinfo]) in druntime and phobos

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 30-05-2012 14:54, Thiez wrote:
> On Wednesday, 30 May 2012 at 12:43:15 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>
>> It doesn't address most of the drawback cited. Notably the fact that
>> every object have a monitor field, but most of them will not use it.
>
> That could be solved without abandoning object locks. If locking on all
> objects is allowed, objects in TLS could simply omit the monitor field.
> Locking would then be performed as:
>
> if (object not in TLS) {
> insert expensive locking operation here
> }
> return
>
> Yes, this would introduce an extra conditional jump whenever a lock is
> acquired/released, but the overhead is very small compared to the
> relatively expensive lock/unlock operation.

I don't understand how that would work. Where would you store the 
monitor reference?

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