killing runners

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Sunday 27 April 2008, Jordi Polo wrote:
> Also a bad written runner can be killed in a critical section leading to a
> held lock.

so it's potentially dangerous and makes it more difficult to write runners.

what's the upside to this again?

or rather: how much time are we spending waiting for useless runners blocking 
proper matches?

if signifcant, is there a way to prevent those runners from starting in the 
first place, or exiting quickly enough to not matter?

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