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Do you think though that prevention of deadlocks though could be more CPU intensive than just letting it occur?

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Almost 100 words gives an opinion on whether it is more costly to the CPU to prevent deadlocks or let them happen.

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Yes, in my opinion it might be quite true that prevention of deadlocks could be more CPU intensive than just letting them occur. Priority setting ...

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