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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Penalty of calling a protected operation or task-entry.
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>As I have understood there is a time-penalty when calling a protected
>operation or task-entry. Im thinking about adminstrative cost
  Have you profiled your program and found that the protected
operations are the bottleneck?

>Is there some approach to remove penalty from the "read" operation?
  If another task is doing a Write, then Read will have to suffer the
penalty of waiting.  If not, then it depends on how efficient is your
particular system's implementation.