<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Please explain this more, and if you can - draw parallel to *nix.<div><br></div><div>TIA</div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 8, 2012, at 4:05 AM, Jay K wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">Note though that "LOCK" doesn't map directly to EnterCriticalSection and more significantly, m3core provides essentially condition variables, which don't map directly to Win32, prior to Vista.<br> (LOCK at least does a delay-heap-allocation-and-initialize before EnterCriticalSection, but also interacts with the condition variables I recall.)<br> <br> <br>I did a bunch of "research" and our condition variable substitution is pretty good now, equivalent to what Java implementations do.<br>Definitely better than others e.g. Boost.</span></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>