Re: [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