Adam Jackson wrote:
>
> Lock cost on x86 is relatively cheap on one die. If you go off the die,
> just pack it up and go home. Admittedly this is a scaling problem only
> for things you do millions of per second, which is not true of
> atoms/properties/misc...
...but is true of XID lookups.
You could alleviate this somewhat by using a finer grained lock - most
clients access only their own resources. But that doesn't help the
Window Manager.
> Still I don't like the complexity explosion.
That too.
Peter Harris
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