Windows XP anachronism in Timer implementation?

General JUCE discussion
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Just noticed this in juce_Timer.cpp :

using LockType = CriticalSection; // (mysteriously, using a SpinLock here causes problems on some XP machines..)

Is Windows XP still a thing for the latest Juce to support? Would changing that LockType to SpinLock improve anything?

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I would say using a spinLock (which is basically a cpu-heater) is even more a anachronism :wink:

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Windows Critical Section and pthread_mutex that the Juce CriticalSection wraps are probably just a spinlock with a spin limit, anyway, though…