GC and Linux/SPARC?

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com> writes:

Jeff> but I can't link to it, even though it appears in the name list:

Jeff>   [jsturm@toronto jsturm]$ nm /lib/libpthread-0.8.so | egrep testandset
Jeff>   00008d78 t testandset

Lowercase "t" means it is a local symbol.

I seem to remember that our Linux performance problems on SMP were
because mutexes used spin locks?  Maybe just using a mutex would be ok
on Linux?

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