Re: RTLSetCriticalSpinCount slows program down
I have a program that reads some data of one file (in 64 Mb chunks), does
a conversion into another format, and writes it to another file.
I don't use threads or any of the Win32 APIs, just pure C++ and STL.
RTLSetCriticalSpinCount function at the top wasting over 60% of the cpu
seems like runtime is heavily synchronizing its own threads, funny as your
program, not having any threads, shoudn't really do that. Do you use COM
in this process (or any other implicitly created threads)? Can you switch
to single-threaded runtime (ML - it's no longer available in v. 2005)? If
it is 2005 , did you try building with define (option /D or search in
preprocessor options) _SECURE_SCL=0 ?
The OP is running a 32 bit executable on x64 windows.
perhaps this issue has something to do with doing IO through WOW, rather
than with the 32 bit executable itself?
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