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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:47:59 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 07:33:49PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 01:23:02PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I *am* concerned about YA performance hit on Windows 9x, though.  I'd like
>> to avoid that if possible.
>
>Sure but you can't simply create your own version of TryEnter...
>since it's an atomic operation inside the NT kernel. Since we're
>just beginning with 1.3.4 I'm thinking we don't need to worry
>today.  Tomorrow is early enough to worry...

Sure you can.  It's easy enough to write if you know the internal
structure of a critical section.  I think we could probably figure
that out by looking at ReactOS or Wine.

I'm not talking about pulling 1.3.3 becase of this.  I'm raising
this issue as something to investigate.

cgf