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Busy waiting

Known as: Spin, Busy wait loop, Busy-wait 
In software engineering, busy-waiting, busy-looping or spinning is a technique in which a process repeatedly checks to see if a condition is true… 
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2020
2020
The effect of visual feedback types on the wait indicator interface of a mobile application
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2020
Highly Cited
2020
Customer behavioural modelling of order cancellation in coupled ride-sourcing and taxi markets
Review
2015
Review
2015
Reliability in wireless sensor networks: A survey and challenges ahead
2011
2011
Managing hardware power saving modes for high performance computing
Energy consumption has become a major topic in high performance computing in the last years. We present an approach to… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
On dynamic load balancing on graphics processors
To get maximum performance on the many-core graphics processors it is important to have an even balance of the workload so that… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Efficient Synchronization for Embedded On-Chip Multiprocessors
This paper investigates optimized synchronization techniques for shared memory on-chip multiprocessors (CMPs) based on network-on… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
The rise and fall of the factory system: technology, firms, and households since the industrial revolution A comment
2000
2000
The M/M\1 queue in a heavy‐tailed random environment
We consider an M/M/1 queue with the special feature that the speed of the server alternates between two constant values sL and sH… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Gang Scheduling Performance Benefits for Fine-Grain Synchronization
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
The Performance of Spin Lock Alternatives for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
  • T. Anderson
  • IEEE Trans. Parallel Distributed Syst.
  • 1990
  • Corpus ID: 3923335
The author examines the questions of whether there are efficient algorithms for software spin-waiting given hardware support for… 
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