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| From | "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> |
| Newsgroups | comp.programming.threads, comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: Spinlock and lockfree and waitfree... |
| Date | Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:10:47 -0700 |
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"aminer" wrote in message news:l3kl4m$ioi$1@news.albasani.net... [...] > So in my opinion , since the Spinlock with an exponential backoff is > 6 times faster under contention , so the risk of a stavartion will > be lowered, and since it minimizes the cache-coherence traffic, so this > will make the Spinlock with an exponential backoff > a better alternative if you want better speed and to minimize > cache-coherence traffic. One tiny point: A lockfree algorithm can make progress on every failure of the condition. A spinlock cannot. ;^/
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Spinlock and lockfree and waitfree... aminer <aminer@toto.net> - 2013-10-15 20:03 -0700 Re: Spinlock and lockfree and waitfree... aminer <aminer@toto.net> - 2013-10-15 21:35 -0700 Re: Spinlock and lockfree and waitfree... "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2013-10-17 17:10 -0700
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