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cbsmith on Oct 10, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS

I think, without exception, thread safe allocators all try to avoid contention.

Under the covers Chrome uses futex on Linux, SRWlock on Windows and os_unfair_lock (not _with_options) on MacOS.

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