Hello Peter!

Friday March 29 1996, Peter Fitzsimmons writes to Gerard Gerritsen:

 GG>> But how much difference will it make for a two threaded program ?

 PF> A lot.  DosEnterCritSec() _ALWAYS_ forces all other threads to stop.

But since there are only two threads that should not make any difference.

 PF> A semaphore will only cause another thread (or the thread asking for
 PF> the semaphore) to stop if and only if there has been a collision with
 PF> that semaphore.
 PF> Big difference.

I do not know for sure but I think using DosEnterCritSec takes less
overhead then using semaphores ?

==> Gerard/2   - member of team os/2 -  1000521{at}ibk.fnt.hvu.nl

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