[PolyORB-users] PolyORB mutexes

[Thomas Quinot]

* hector, 2009-04-15 :

> I am looking at PolyORB internals and I would like to know just a curiosity: why PolyORB uses POSIX-like mutexes by default instead standard Ada ones?

Purely for efficiency reasons. A mutex implemented as a standard Ada
protected object (PolyORB.Tasking.Profiles.Full_Tasking.Portable_Mutexes)
is much less efficient than one using the underlying OS mutexes directly
(PolyORB.Tasking.Profiles.Full_Tasking.Mutexes).

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