Tom Lane wrote: > Theo Schlossnagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'd remind everyone that the spinlock stuff is entirely optional at > > build time. > > Not really. The performance hit for not having hardware spinlocks is > so severe that it's not considered a reasonable fallback. > > > I also think it immensely useful to replace all of the tas subsystem > > with cas so that one could reliabily lock these atomics with the process > > id of the locker. > > I cannot, ever once in my years working on Postgres, remember having > wanted such a thing. I am strongly against mucking with the spinlock > code for mere aesthetics --- it's too fragile and hard to test, > especially on platforms you don't have ready access to. > > In short, it ain't broken and we don't need to fix it.
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