With this fight over spinlocks in Linux almost clear, now I want to know if @Jonathan_Blow used them in their games and if he knew about the performance hit
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Another way to summarize that entire blog post would just have been to say, "When you don't know how to design your multithreaded program properly, you should call the OS mutex because the kernel people will cover for you and they probably knew what they're doing."
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Later in the thread, the person who posted the blog entry responds to Linus, and seems to still not understand what he's doing, and Linus provides an even longer explanation of all the problems with what the blog post did: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpostid=189752 …
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