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From: Jonathan Benedicto
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:30

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"Dennis Jones" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message 
news:429354a6@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> A critical section is the most efficient (in terms of performance) 
> kernel
> mode synchronization primitive.  If you are looking for performance, 
> a
> critical section is the way to go.  Though it might seem slower 
> than, say, a
> boolean lock, it is safe, while a boolean lock is not.
>
> On the other hand, depending on what the other threads are doing, it 
> might
> be faster to lock the whole vector, do your search, and then unlock 
> (as
> opposed to locking each element individually).

Thank you for this input. I'm going to try a critical section, and see 
how it works out.

Jonathan

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