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> but I want to mention that they NOP out the spinlock codepaths in
> ntoskrnl.exe and hal.dll when you install/update a new kernel on a UP
> machine.
I'm not impressed unless they also NOP out the lock calls from VXDs at
runtime. And even with NOPs you're talking about things you should
have compiled away, like chunks of cacheline and register allocations,
so I'm still not sure I'm impressed.
Peter
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