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["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> BTW, I am getting a bit concerned by the high number of sem's that 
> we're
> using. I think we'll need to work hard to reduce this, but the 
> schemes I
> have in mind are mainly for when we get into the kernel :(

If the BeOS kernel wouldn't limit them, semaphores would be more or 
less cheap - the way I see it :)
I could imagine that NewOS does a better job here, but I haven't looked 
at it yet - Michael mentioned once dynamically growing arrays, but I 
don't know if that was only on the wishlist.
Anyway, I have the same problem with BFS, where I am currently using 
two semaphores for every read-write lock (the fast implementation, you 
can fall back to the slow one with a define).

Adios...
   Axel.