Man, you&#x27;re fighting uphill battle. This is a typical case of people being scared of something they don&#x27;t understand coupled with not willing to learn. Yesterday[1] I read that RFID tags emit radiation because RF means radio frequency, so it&#x27;s harmful. Today I read that ETW is harmful telemetry and MS injecting code into binaries.<p>I thought I got over the fact that a lot of people programming on Windows don&#x27;t understand its internals. But I didn&#x27;t. Understanding ETW is essential on Windows, just like DTrace is a must on Linux or ktrace on OpenBSD. It&#x27;s also well documented on MSDN[2]. ETW also typically boils down to a single check for any listener interested in messages. This info is public and has been for ages. I guess I&#x27;d understand this attitude if there were no real reasons to bash MS.<p>But I guess what pisses me the most is the context of that reddit thread. People complain about mutex performance and show code where they mutex vector accesses. This kind of code does not belong in performance critical game code. &quot;Hey, I&#x27;ve got a salad to make, what tools do I need? I&#x27;ve got a hammer but these veggies are not a nail. But I&#x27;m sure if I take two hammers to the task my problem suddenly changes to nailing things together!&quot;<p>For Pete&#x27;s sake, if a slight performance drop in mutex performance of user mode code hogs your application, you&#x27;re mutexing too much. Your code is a problem, not a mutex. And if you&#x27;re using single threaded STL primitives for communication between threads you have no right to complain about CRT performance. None. This lack of intellectual curiosity in people sinks my heart.<p>Rant out. :S<p>[1] not on HN though, thankfully
[2] well by MSDN standards at least - ETW documentation is hard to grok without referencing sample code in the Windows SDK