From: Michael Wookey <michaelwookey@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:48:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] MSVC: port pthread code to native Windows threads
Message-ID: <d2e97e800911040048h42ef7193v117773cc528b2361@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AF13819.7050306@viscovery.net>

2009/11/4 Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>:
> Andrzej K. Haczewski schrieb:
>
>> +static __inline int win32_cond_init(win32_cond_t *cond)
>> +{
>> +     cond->waiters = 0;
>> +
>> +     InitializeCriticalSection(&cond->waiters_lock);
>> +
>> +     cond->sema = CreateSemaphore(NULL, 0, LONG_MAX, NULL);
>
> Wouldn't an Event object be lighter-weight? (I'm only guessing.)

Both events and semaphores resolve to wait-able kernel objects; so
neither is "lighter-weight" than the other.