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It's unlikely the single-threaded version was improved noticeably. Futexes are nearly zero-cost when not contended.

I left the random_r numbers with single threads out of the post for exactly this reason. Performance with random_r on a single thread was less than 3% faster, with a slightly higher variance (which I can't explain, to be honest).

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