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		nly 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sl... Some people don't want to block for a microsecond when their lock goes 1ns over your adaptive mutexes spin deadline. That kind of jitter is unacceptable.

senderista 1 day ago [–]

I assume those people are already running 1 pinned thread/core and have no issues with unbounded spinning in the first place. In which case, go nuts.

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