Re: [boost] A fast-pathed rw-mutex algorithm for Boost...

From: Chris Thomasson (cristom_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-27 19:24:18

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:00d101c6f9d7$8a44b000$6607a8c0_at_pdimov2...
> Peter Dimov wrote:
>> Anthony Williams wrote:
>>> "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>>> Peter Dimov wrote:
>>>>> Howard Hinnant wrote:

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> Your last algorithm also suffers from it, not as much, though:

[...]

> This is probably very much OS/kernel/CPU/workload specific, though. Your
> algorithm definitely holds its own in all realistic scenarios.

I just remembered that Joe Seigh posted a couple of 'ad-hoc' rw-mutex 
implementations over on c.p.t; back when I was SenderX... Joe was using them 
for something to compare his atomic_ptr proxy collector... Here is the link:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming.threads/browse_frm/thread/b586dbbbf273764d

It might be worth taking a look, and possibly including it your test 
application(s)...