12 Jul
2011
12 Jul
'11
12:12 a.m.
On Monday 11 July 2011 23:15:26 Tim E. Real wrote:
On July 11, 2011 04:50:06 pm Chris Cannam wrote:
Real-time means "as fast as possible". Waiting to acquire a lock isn't
exactly
what you would call "fast"...
Waiting for a lock is the same as waiting for the kernels/OSs memory managment
to allocate some space.
Have fun,
Arnold
I know taking locks in a RT process is deeply
frowned upon
Likely been answered before, but good time for me to ask:
What is the reason it is not recommended?
Is it simply because of a long time involved in acquiring the lock, or is
it because the lock might block some other Jack thread from running?
The same reason why other things like 'malloc' or 'new' are not
recommended either?