> with the following results:
>
> Iterations: 1000000
> Thread count: 1
> std::mutex: 52002us
> std::recursive_mutex: 51002us
> CRITICAL_SECTION: 23001us
> Thread count: 2
> std::mutex: 448025us
> std::recursive_mutex: 442025us
> CRITICAL_SECTION: 106006us
> Thread count: 4
> std::mutex: 884050us
> std::recursive_mutex: 893051us
> CRITICAL_SECTION: 197011us
> Thread count: 8
> std::mutex: 70695043us
> std::recursive_mutex: 73504204us
> CRITICAL_SECTION: 273015us
> Thread count: 16
> std::mutex: 147516437us
> std::recursive_mutex: 156276938us
> CRITICAL_SECTION: 440025us
>

very interesting, thank you, it looks it contradicts what nksingh was writing and it's certainly not a good idea to revise my code based on critical sections (very clean with a Lock class were the destructor leave the CS) with C++ std mutexes and locks