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Re: output streams vs output ports

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From: Michael Sperber <sperber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: output streams vs output ports
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 11:09:16 +0200

> Could you clarify what would be expensive about it?  Getting the
> synchronization right is sure difficult to program, but I don't think
> there's a necessarily large performance hit.  (Specifically, Scheme 48
> does it all entirely without locking.)

Is there a portable way (i.e. can be written in portable C)
to avoid calling synchronization primitives (e.g. pthread_mutex_lock)
if the implementation uses native threads?

If I can sacrifice portability a bit, I may use spin lock with
processor-specific synchronization instruction.  (I also need
pthread_cleanup_push/pop to handle cancellation, but I expect
they are lightweight.)

Using pthread mutex and condition variables does hurt.  I'll be
glad if there's a better way.

--shiro