On 10/31/2011 04:23 AM, Erik van Oosten wrote: > That is not the point (mostly). While you're waiting for a lock, you can't > issue another IO request. Avoiding locking is worthwhile even if CPU is the > bottleneck. The advantage is that you'll get lower latency and also > important, less jitter.
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Doesn't the Disruptor use a spin lock though? I would expect that to
not play nice if sharing a core with CPU bound threads doing 'real' work.
