Optimizing a Spin-Lock

What happened
A spin-lock is a lock that never sleeps. Instead of yielding to the scheduler, the thread stays on the CPU and spins. No syscalls. No context switches. In this …
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A spin-lock is a lock that never sleeps. Instead of yielding to the scheduler, the thread stays on the CPU and spins. No syscalls. No context switches. In this …
Summary assembled by rule from the sources below