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Hello all,


Why not use the Windows critical section and that's all ?
you have to understand that the Windows critical section is not 
starvation-free and it's not FIFO fair and it doesn't minimize 
efficiently the cache-coherence traffic cause it is using a backoff 
mechanism, so since the Windows critical section is using a backoff 
mechanism, that means that same thread will have the opportunity to 
enter many many times the same critical section, and that's what happen 
with Windows critical section, so as you have noticed this is fast cause 
the same same thread will reuse the same variable from the same local 
cache, but this is not FIFO fair and it's not starvation-free, so this 
why i have decided to contribute to the FreePascal and Lazarus community 
and i have implemented scalable Locks that are scalable and that 
minimizes efficiently the cache-coherence traffic and that are
FIFO fair and starvation-free.

And you can download them from my website:

http://pages.videotron.com/aminer/


Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.

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