Why spinlocks are used?
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Answer / Jeetendra Srivastava
Spinlocks are used to minimize the context-switch overhead in situations where contention for a resource is expected to be low or temporary. Instead of blocking the thread and putting it to sleep, a spinning thread continues to execute and periodically checks if the lock is available.
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