Re: The cost of pthread-mutexes or corresponding...

[Rich Salz]

> To play devil's advocate, why don't we get rid of all locks in OpenSSL?

Because, as we found out (back when my team first contributed the locking code
to SSLeay), if you only have the granularity of a single "openssl lock", then
only a single thread can do SSL_write.  That locking hierarchy is way too
coarse. :)
        /r$
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