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Simon Marlow authored
This helps when the thread holding the lock has been descheduled, which is the main cause of the "last-core slowdown" problem. With this patch, I get much better results with -N8 on an 8-core box, although some benchmarks are still worse than with 7 cores. I also added a yieldThread() into the any_work() loop of the parallel GC when it has no work to do. Oddly, this seems to improve performance on the parallel GC benchmarks even when all the cores are busy. Perhaps it is due to reducing contention on the memory bus.
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