Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Brandon,

Saturday, April 19, 2008, 8:24:03 PM, you wrote:

contention.  (Note that resource locking will be done by the threaded
runtime even with only one thread, so you will see some slowdowns especially in I/O-related code.)

yes, i forget about this. Simon wrote once that locking decrease
performance by a few percents compared to single-threaded runtime

...which is why I'm so damned surprised that the threaded RTS is *faster* than the monoprocessor RTS [which presumably lacks such locking overhead].

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