On quarta-feira, 23 de maio de 2012 04.54.11, [email protected] wrote:
> On May 22, 2012, at 11:01 AM, ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > And I don't think they very much liked the idea of spinning while trying
> > to
> > acquire a lock (consumes power)... at least we have a call to
> > QThread::yieldCurrentThread(), though it would be interesting to see what
> > happens if we replace it with a PAUSE instruction.
>
> Have you seen the spin code in 4.8? It does use
> QThread::yieldCurrentThread(). ;)

Indeed it does. I'm saying that it would be interesting to check what happens
if we replace it with a simple PAUSE instruction. We might be able to achieve
the same result with a much smaller overhead.

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