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		gpderetta 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fun with Futex Enough to be able to pack a mutex and a pointer together for example. If you are carefully packing your structs a one byte mutex is great.

skitter 3 months ago [–]

Yup, that's what I'm doing - storing the two bits needed for an object's monitor in the same word as its compressed class pointer. The pointer doesn't change over the lock's lifetime.

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