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Dear Arjan,


       ///////
       //    O
      //      >                                    This is a graduate
       / \__ ~                                     student, laboratory
         ||                            /////       assistant, automotive
       (\ \)   (~)                    //  o   <--- engineer or other
       ( \ \  / /                    //    >       unfortunate soul
       (  \ \/ /         ____________/ \__O        attempting to get
       (   \__/         /  ___ ______\//           performance out of a
       /   | /@        (  /  / ______)/            machine running Linux
      (    |//          \ \ / /   (_)              by writing a simple
       \   ()            \ \O/                     and correct
        \  |              ) )                      multithreaded program.
         ) )             / /
        (  |_           / /_
        (____>         (____>

           ^
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      This is you.



	(with apologies to the haxor brothers,)

	Duraid.


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
 > oh you mean the OpenMP broken behavior of calling sched_yield() in a
 > tight loop to implement spinlocks ?