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Re:No nuances, just buggy code (was: related to Spinlock imp... by mritun on Sunday January 05, 2020 @04:26PM (#21964230)
Calling sleep(1) instead of thread yield is faster - see the twitter thread for a proof.
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Re:No nuances, just buggy code (was: related to Spinlock imp... by de_watcher on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:04AM (#21969619)
Still worse: it's a confusing code, and it's also confusing that it's faster.
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