Not the GP, but I read "we use spin waiting" as a response to "aren't you wastin...

		couchand on May 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A lock-free, concurrent, generic queue in 32 bits Not the GP, but I read "we use spin waiting" as a response to "aren't you wasting a bunch of CPU cycles" in the sense that "yes, but it's the least bad option".