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Spinlock optimization and its trade-offs
The article discusses spinlocks, which keep threads busy on the CPU instead of yielding to the scheduler, and notes that this can avoid system calls and context switches.
Spinlocks keep a thread busy waiting on the CPU rather than yielding to the scheduler. As the article preview notes, this approach can avoid system calls and context switches.
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