PATCH (libstdc++-v3 mainline): Re-enable i386/atomicity.h

Martin v. Löwis martin@v.loewis.de
Tue May 6 19:28:00 GMT 2003


Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> writes:

> >Most interestingly, IMO, is the usage of these operations in
> >basic_string. It would be interesting to find out how often atomic_add
> >is used in an application that makes intense use of std::string.
> 
> This is also of interest to me. I think that Paolo has recently found
> some MT string tests, so maybe this will be answered more definitively
> in the future. Perhaps he can cc you on his results.

I would certainly be interested. I think it might be best to
instrument atomic_add with a global counter (protected by a mutex :-),
then run some applications with that instrumented library. If
possible, recompilation of, say, KDE, should be attempted.

Regards,
Martin



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