libgcj and the NPTL posix threads implementation

Fri Feb 27 20:18:00 GMT 2004

On Fri, 2004年02月27日 at 10:15, Boehm, Hans wrote:
> You might try http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/qprof . I'm biased,
> but a design goal was to build a quick-and-dirty profiler that's trivial
> to install and run. 

Just tried it, and it's pretty neat.
pthread mutexes do show up in my benchmark at about 15% of the time. 
They are used extensively by the GC. Perhaps we could your light
weight locks here as well.
AG
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