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Spinlock

In computer science, a spinlock is a lock where the thread simply waits ("spins") until the lock becomes available. Spinlocks are very efficient if threads are only likely be blocked for a short period of time, as they avoid the overhead of operating system process re-scheduling. They are wasteful if the lock is held for a long period of time.



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