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@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ polling for.
The duration of a PAUSE instruction's effect may vary significantly within and
among implementations.
+In typical implementations this duration should be much less than the time to perform a context switch, probably more on the rough order of an on-chip cache miss latency or a cacheless access to main memory.
Portable software should not use more than one PAUSE instruction before
re-evaluating loop conditions, else performance might substantially degrade on
other implementations, or even on some executions on the same implementation.