While spin locks are CPU-intensive and appear inefficient, they can be more efficient than suspending the thread and subsequently waking it up if the lock in question is held for a very short time.

虽然旋转锁是cpu密集型的，显得效率低下，但是如果争夺的锁被持有的时间非常短，那么旋转锁要比暂挂线程然后再唤醒它更有效率。

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Once time became the problem -- not the vanilla ice cream -- the engineer quickly came up with the answer: vapor lock.

一旦时间变成问题-而不是香草冰激凌-工程师很快找到答案：气阻。

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Companies may end up spending more time negotiating all the possibilities, than making up new proprietary formats, as agreements and pacts will become the new means of customer lock-ins.

公司可能最终会把时间都花在谈判所有可能的格式上，而不是建立新的私有的格式，那么协议和合同将会成为新的霸占顾客(customer lock - ins)的手段。

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At the same time, the lock-up period expired on 234 million shares of Facebook stock Monday and 777 million more shares expire on Nov. 14, as Eric Savitz notes.

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America continues to lock up a scandalously large number of its people: around 1% of the adult population is behind bars at any time.

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