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Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: Anders Sundin
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:15
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fat@cnit.nsk.su (Dmitry V. Irtegov) wrote:

>wade@macc.wisc.edu (Wade E. Masshardt) writes:
>> c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) wrote:
>
>>>But if you lock down handles, you are fighting the OS in its efforts to
>>>eliminate fragmentation.
>
>>Unless you have brain, in which case you lock the handle just before you
>>are going to use it, then unlock it as soon as you are finished.  Duh.
>
>If you lock handles before each use and unlock them after,
>your code inflates 2-3 times, and if you don't you have werid
>bugs when you pass pointer outside of lock/unlock region.
>Been there, done that.

Maybe you could post an example of this code of yours that "inflates
2-3 times" when you lock handles? ;-)

-Anders
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 Anders Sundin, Org. Chem. 2, Lund University, Box 124, S-22100 Lund, Sweden
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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 11:15:28 +0200
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