Re: quark hashtable locking

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 10:28 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> Why does gdataset.c use a mutex to protect the quark hashtable. Isn't
> this the ideal place for a readers-writers lock (GStaticRWLock). This
> might not be a heavily contended lock, but it seems like a simple change
> too. Maybe i'm missing something?

Hmm, i see that rw locks are implemented using GMutex, so this might not
be a good idea performance wise, as the locks are held for a short time
anyway.

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