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To: David A. Lethe who wrote (89)	8/20/1997 1:10:00 AM
From: Kev.	of 100

...Unless you are in the top 1% of ASM coders in the country... Actually, I did a better job on the the spin-lock manually than a C compiler would do because: 1. It's not a C construct. 2. You can enter a routine in multiple places in assembler - the spin-lock works better entering in the middle. FYI: A spin-lock is used in multi-threaded parallel processing to stop more than one thread at a time accessing the same data. It's about 8 or 9 instructions in SPARC code. The system library version was rather flabby. Anyway, the whole Merced thing sounds like another of those day-late-dollar-short slightly off the mark HP efforts. Kev.

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