Re: doors IPC

[Alexandre Julliard]

Marcus Meissner  writes:
> Since critical sections are thought to be 'fast' and 'short time' locking
> primitives, and Win32 threads should not sleep in a critical section,
> we can just give up our timeslice and wait for the other thread that
> has the lock to continue.

Well, there are tons of places where we will sleep inside a critical
section, so it could potentially burn a lot of CPU. That doesn't
necessarily make it slower, but it would probably impact other
applications more. As usual, the only way to tell is to do benchmarks.