Re: Spinlocks

Performance is indeed the motivation for these spinlocks. I am looking to
the near future where 4 or more cores are running Csound instruments on up
to dozens of threads. In that case, spinlocks seem to promise a significant
performance advantage over mutexes, especially because we would not expect
the locks to do much actual spinning. Each lock contention would be in cache
and involve a short loop and some CAS, rather than hopping out to the OS.

Regards,
Mike

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Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Spinlocks


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