A spin-lock is a lock that never sleeps. Instead of yielding to the scheduler, the thread stays on the CPU and spins. No syscalls. No context switches. In this post, we’ll build a version, step by step, that is 5.7x faster while drawing 5.4x less energy.
A spin-lock is a lock that never sleeps. Instead of yielding to the scheduler, the thread stays on the CPU and spins. No syscalls. No context switches. In this post, we’ll build a version, step by step, that is 5.7x faster while drawing 5.4x less energy.
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