Bill Pugh wrote:
> It would be very interesting for me to find out what the cost of just
> doing standard synchronization is. A lot of times, I think people
> jump to using tricks to try to avoid synchronization, when
> synchronization cost isn't a noticeable issue for their application.
In Sun's HotSpot, synchronization is maybe a dozen clocks or less for
an uncontested lock/unlock pair.
The indirect costs are much higher as many of the common library
routines are synchronized and synchronization stops many optimizations.
Cliff
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