On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 at 02:32, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The only code I've seen that implements yield are synchronization > routines. Consider a spin-lock which is spinning on a CS instruction. Why would any application program on z/OS implement and use a spin lock? Why do the authors of such think they can do a better implementation than the operating system? If you think you need a spin lock on z/OS, you should probably be using transactional execution. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
