FC5T2 and Development issues, observations, and questions

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:32:10AM -0800, goemon at anime.net wrote:

 > >The spinlock operations are almost free on AMD on UP.  They did some real
 > >magic in their cores to make locked operations really fast compared to 
 > >Netburst.
 > Is this 100% true for all x86_64 including first gen opterons?
 
It was on the ones I tested, including some pre-production samples.

		Dave