Peter Dimov wrote: [...] > What makes you think that statically initializing a mutex is faster? It only > defers the initialization until the first lock call occurs.
That's the way how it works under win32. ;-) > Plus, pthread_mutex_init gives you the option to test for errors, should you > decide to do so. Yep. Oh, BTW: < also a sort of "Does anyone care." in relation to locks ;-) > http://www.terekhov.de/pthread_refcount_t/poor-man/beta2/prefcnt.h http://www.terekhov.de/pthread_refcount_t/poor-man/beta2/prefcnt.c (any comments {in private or here or on c.p.t.} are quite welcome) regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost