[erlang-questions] os:timestamp() uses mutex lock

[Kenneth Lundin]

Hi Jonas,

We have checked, and it is actually unnecessary to have the mutex lock
in the os:timestamp case.

The fastest way for you to get this changed is to do it yourself and
provide it as a patch to the
pu branch at github. See instructions for how to provide patch at
http://wiki.github.com/erlang/otp/


/Kenneth Erlang/OTP Ericsson

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Jonas Falkevik
<jonas.falkevik@REDACTED> wrote:
> Using erlang:now() for taking time stamps is slowing things down if you try
> to do it in parallell due to the guarantee of uniqueness hence a mutex lock
> and serialization of the execution.
>
> But what if you don't need the uniqueness and would like to trade it to be
> able to run things in parallell and with smaller overhead?
>
> In R12 you would need to implement a new BIF.
>
> In R13 with the introduction of NIF's it is easy to implement and deploy
> your own modified now().
>
> But in R13 the function os:timestamp() seems to have been introduced as
> well, which does not have the uniqueness but still the mutex lock.
> What is the need of the mutex lock in this function?
>
> Any other way?
>
>
>
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