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On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:20:10PM -0500, Robert Love wrote:

 > I feared this too, but eventually I decided it was worth it and
 > benchmarks backed that up.  If nothing else this is yet-another-excuse
 > for locks that can spin-then-sleep.
 > I posted dbench results, which show a positive gain even on 2-way for
 > multiple client loads.

 did you benchmark with anything other than dbench ?

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