4 May
2003
4 May
'03
11:44 a.m.
but is there some time granularity associated with mutex locking/unlocking? Don't know...
Oh, i did some short tests and can say that at least for the Windows pthreads implementation there isn't any additional time jitter imposed by thread locking/unlocking (it seems like the normal multi-threading jitter is much higher). Threads seem to immediately continue running as soon as they are unlocked.
greetings, Thomas