Re: PowerPC fastpaths for mutex subsystem

 
> Doens't this mean that the sped-up mutexes are still slower than semaphores?

Wasnt most of the x86 mutex gain a result of going from fair to unfair
operation? The current ppc64 semaphores are unfair.

Anton
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