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On mutex performance and WTF::Lock
One of the things I’ve been doing this quarter is removing Gecko’s dependence on NSPR locks . Gecko’s (non-recursive) mutexes and condition variables now use platform-specific constructs, rather than indirecting through NSPR. This change makes things smaller, especially on POSIX platforms, and uses no dynamic memory…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Apr 2, 2017 | On mutex performance and WTF::Lock by jsnell | 208 | 62 |
