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Re:Multi-core scaling: it’s not multi-threaded by robertgraham on Thursday February 21, 2013 @06:12PM (#5261277)
The entire point of the post was talk about "lock-free" algorithms where two cores can make forward progress without either having to wait or spin.

What systems have mutexes that aren't built like futexes?

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Re:Multi-core scaling: it’s not multi-threaded by javert on Thursday February 21, 2013 @07:14PM (#5261627)
Kernels, and probably any kind of parallel user-level runtime like Erlang.
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