On 22 September 2013 03:55, erik quanstrom wrote: > > new 1.55e10 O=10 M=8 > old 2.74e10 > > new 3.64e10 O=0 M=8 > old 5.14e10 > > am i doing something fundamental wrong, or are the new locks substantially > slower than the old ones? > In those cases, the new times seem to be quite a bit faster, more than they are slower in the cases you found slower, which involved only one process (if I understand the tests)