[issue11618] Locks broken wrt timeouts on Windows

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Antoine:  I notice that even the fast path contains a ResetEvent()
> call.  I think this is a kernel call and so just as expensive as
> directly using a semaphore :)

Yes, in my timings it doesn't show significant improvements compared to
the semaphore approach (although again it's on a VM, so I'm not sure how
much this reflects a native Windows system).

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