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Re:A flexible, lightweight, spin-lock barrier by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @06:17PM (#30692616)
Yeah, I've read a lot of it. It all comes with caveats and potential performance issues.
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Re:A flexible, lightweight, spin-lock barrier by MaxGanzII on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @05:35AM (#30696862)
Seemed okay to me with regard to caveats.

Performance issues -> it's lock-free and scales profoundly better than non-lock-free.

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