Thin Locks in D

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By bloid
via bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com
Submitted: Jul 25 2008 / 02:36

I’ve been working recently on improving the performance of locking in D (the D programming language). At this moment the synchronized statement in D simply uses the underlying OS facilities–CriticalSection on Windows and pthread mutex on Linux. This incurs a substantial performance hit for multithreaded programming.

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