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2015-04-22minor optimization to pthread_spin_trylockRich Felker-1/+2
use CAS instead of swap since it's lighter for most archs, and keep EBUSY in the lock value so that the old value obtained by CAS can be used directly as the return value for pthread_spin_trylock.
2015-04-22optimize spin lock not to dirty cache line while spinningRich Felker-1/+1
2011-09-16fix more instances of old a_xchg (use new a_swap name)Rich Felker-1/+1
2011-03-28revert some more spin optimizations that turned out to be pessimizationsRich Felker-1/+1
2011-03-28fix broken spinlock due to miscompilationRich Felker-1/+1
actually this trick also seems to have made the uncontended case slower.
2011-03-24optimize spinlock spinRich Felker-1/+1
2011-02-12initial check-in, version 0.5.0v0.5.0Rich Felker-0/+7