1. A busy-waiting technique where a thread or process repeatedly checks a condition in a loop without yielding control, consuming CPU cycles until the condition is met.
The application used a spin wait to check if the resource was available.
A aplicação usou uma espera por rotação para verificar se o recurso estava disponível.
2. In computing, a synchronization mechanism where a processor continuously loops, testing a variable until it reaches a desired state rather than blocking or sleeping.
Spin waits can reduce latency but increase power consumption.
As esperas por rotação podem reduzir a latência, mas aumentam o consumo de energia.