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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: malloc performance
From:       m_elter () t-online ! de (Matthias Elter)
Date:       2002-02-12 14:58:27
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Henrik Johnson wrote:

> Ok, then I have no problem whatsoever with it. Never heard of 
> spinlocks except in connection with the Linux kernel and have 
> absolutely no idea of how they differ from Mutexes (They seem to 
> perform the same thing). 

A spinlock is a while( 1 ) loop eating CPU cycles while mutexes provided 
by the OS usually are implemented via the scheduling algorithm.

Greetings,
Matthias


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