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Hi. I have noticed that Cygwin's spinlock goes into heavy sleeping code for each spin. It seems it would be a good idea to actually try to spin a bit first. There is this 'pause' instruction which let's the CPU make such busy loops be less busy. Here is a patch to do this. -- VH
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