[ros-dev] Mayday ... Critical Section problems

[Rick Parrish]

Alex Ionescu wrote:
> Rick Parrish wrote:
>   
>> Try this ... add a call to Sleep(0) just before attempting to acquire 
>> the lock. That *may* produce better average performance.
>>     
> You should never use Sleep(0), that's a horrible suggestion.
>
> Use Sleep(1) and/or, SwitchToThread(), and/or YieldProcessor() and /or
> __mm_pause ("pause").
>   
Thanks Alex. I'll have to check these out.

Oh, and Timo's suggestion is very retro (but very valid) if you remember 
VAX-11 architecture.

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/DOC/73final/4515/4515pro_023.html

(wandering off topic)

-rick