I wrote:
> sysmips is history with current glibc since the Linux kernel emulates
> LL/SC for CPUs that don't have it. This emulation is actually faster than
> sysmips. (You'd think it's slower because it's one syscall vs. two
> emulated instructions. But with LL/SC glibc can use test-and-set
^^^^^^^^^^^^
> which enables a more efficient linux-threads mutex implementation.)
Oops, I meant compare-and-swap.
Johannes
