Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > > I wrote: > > > sysmips is history with current glibc since the Linux kernel emulates > > LL/SC for CPUs that don't have it. This emulation is actually faster than > > sysmips. (You'd think it's slower because it's one syscall vs. two > > emulated instructions. But with LL/SC glibc can use test-and-set > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > which enables a more efficient linux-threads mutex implementation.) > > Oops, I meant compare-and-swap. Implement new sysmips then. Regards, Gleb.
