[haiku-development] Re: Latest changes and general status.

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:57:10 +0200 CEST

Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Regarding the restructuring 
> of the locking primitives, that shouldn't have any noticible 
> performance 
> impact yet. Well, our snooze() performs better now. :-P And since a 
> few 
> hours also blocking reads from pipes.

What could actually have an impact on SMP machines are the changes you 
made to the timer implementation.
Not sure if that should turn out to be drastic, but every acquire 
semaphore that used a timeout would call cancel_timer() which got 
greatly improved.

Bye,
   Axel.


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