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A futex overview and update

A futex overview and update

Posted Nov 25, 2009 8:10 UTC (Wed) by sustrik (guest, #62161)
Parent article: A futex overview and update

As far as I understand, using private futex to wait on should be faster (by one atomic op) than waiting on glibc mutex, right? I've just iterated the wait/wake cycle for 10000000s of times and seen no statistically significant difference between the two. Any ideas why that may be so?


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