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Some people don't want to block for a microsecond when their lock goes 1ns over your adaptive mutexes spin deadline. That kind of jitter is unacceptable.


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senderista12/08/2025

I assume those people are already running 1 pinned thread/core and have no issues with unbounded spinning in the first place. In which case, go nuts.