> > it won't be "too late"—as causing failures. i've tried testing this and
> > generally found that reduced contention on the dog pile lock means
> > unconditionally halting gives a performance boost.
> >
> > - erik
> >
>
> What are the changes you made to 9atom to facilitate this? Just replacing the
> if/else with a halt?
no other changes needed. if there are, then one would suspect there is
code depending on timing that is accidental, and not guarenteed.
the current 9atom version is somewhat compromised:
if(m->machno != 0)
halt();
i don't recall any reason for this other than some long-forgotten experiments.
- erik
