an adaptive fashion when adaptive mutexes are enabled. The theory
behind non-adaptive Giant is that Giant will be held for long periods
of time, and therefore spinning waiting on it is wasteful. However,
in MySQL benchmarks which are relatively Giant-free, running Giant
adaptive makes an observable difference on SMP (5% transaction rate
improvement). As such, make adaptive behavior on Giant an option so
it can be more widely benchmarked.
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