Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux

Posted Feb 21, 2024 3:23 UTC (Wed) by itsmycpu (subscriber, #139639)
In reply to: Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux by pizza
Parent article: Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux

> Ah, so this mythical other approach is just that; no implementation much less any benchmarks showing it to be just as good or better than the kernel-based approach that exists _today_.

There are several existing approaches that have the same performance, just the existing ones also have shortcomings which that approach would not have.

> ...Um, you do realize that Wine needs to synchronize between multiple independent heayweight *processes* ?

Yes, as indicated I do, however I wonder what you mean with a "heavyweight" process?

Shared memory is as fast between processes (I measured it), and can be read-protected or write-protected for specific processes.