I don't think we use spin locks in production code anywhere. The latency test has a wait strategy interface and one of the implementations is spinning. I need to check the comments but not sure if I used that strategy for the latency tests for the garbage free performance page.
Sent from my iPhone > On 18 Dec 2016, at 10:10, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I thought we were using it in AppenderControlArraySet for example, but it > doesn't look like it really matches the idea. I've been reading through all > the JEPs in JDK9 to see if there's anything else useful we haven't already > marked in our epic <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1564>, and I > found Thread.onSpinWait() <http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/285> which looked > useful, but I'm not sure of anywhere we could use it. > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>