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> The entire compiler is protected by mutexes in all notable major
> sections presummably because they like to have things as optimized
> for threading as much as possible.

Actually, mutexes almost always slow things down, so I doubt it's an
optimization issue.  It's probably to ensure a method is completely
JIT'd before they allow execution of the new version.



Nate

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