On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:53:12PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > Have you ever profiled the number of calls to MIPS_ATOMIC_SET or > _test_and_set? They'll be the other factor in a decission. Against glibc 2.2 compiled bins do it 20-30 times on startup ... Just try an strace and you'll astonished ... Even sleep (What on earth is atomic in sleep ?) Flo -- Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912 Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?