Month: October 2016

1 Building a simple spin gate in C++ This is a very simplified latch which allows several threads to block and busywait until they are released to begin work in parallel. I’m using this to do some multi-thread stress testing, where I want to maximize the overlapping work in order to check for suprising non-deterministic…

Table of Contents 1. Why notes 2. Getting Ready 3. Configure and build with magic option 1 Why notes Making notes so I don’t forget, although the key problem is fixed upstream. Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) has made a critical change to the system compiler, and everything is by default built with position independent executable…