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O(n^2), again, now in WMI

Posted on December 8, 2019 by brucedawson

I recently hit some multi-minute delays on my workstation. After investigating I found that the problem was due to a lock being held for five minutes, and during that time the lock-holder was mostly just spinning in a nine-instruction loop. … Continue reading →

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