Re: [Libunwind-devel] Updated fast trace patch with initial performance results

[Paul Pluzhnikov]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Arun Sharma <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hopefully, this will be faster than pthread_getspecific() and may
> allow us to defer the call to pthread_setspecific() to a safer point.

Faster? Yes.

Safer? I don't see how. You are still calling pthread_setspecific from a
potentially unsafe context.

Thanks,
-- 
Paul Pluzhnikov