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From: kurtl@fai.UUCP (Kurt Luoto)
Subject: Re: Teaching Concurrency
Date: 17 Jan 90 15:40:35 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2680@fai.UUCP> (raw)
In-Reply-To: =K01QVDxds13@ficc.uu.net

In article <=K01QVDxds13@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I believe that the following two problems are inappropriate, because
>they are subject to race conditions related to task startup time,
>quantum sizes, and so on:
>
>> (3) veryslowsort.
>> (6) quantum mouse.
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> _--_|\  Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. <peter@ficc.uu.net>.

Problems that are subject to startup problems and race conditions
make excellent material for learing about task synchronization
and coordination issues.  All the more reason to include them.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1990-01-17 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1990-01-07  2:26 Teaching Concurrency Bill Wolfe
1990-01-09 16:41 ` Marc Benveniste,lsp
1990-01-10 20:49 ` Mark Shepherd
1990-01-10 22:47   ` Richard Pattis
1990-01-11 13:04     ` Robert Firth
1990-01-11 19:27       ` Vincent Manis
1990-01-13  7:34         ` Peter G Ludemann
1990-01-12 19:02       ` Peter da Silva
1990-01-15 13:30         ` Robert Firth
1990-01-17 15:40         ` Kurt Luoto [this message]
1990-01-11 16:09     ` Michael Meissner
1990-01-14 12:33       ` Re^2: " Kim Shearer
1990-01-11 18:50     ` Tom Griest
1990-01-11 20:38     ` Brian L. Stuart
1990-01-12  0:47     ` Robert Steigerwald x2468
1990-01-15 11:10     ` Stavros Macrakis
1990-01-11 14:52   ` David Lamb
1990-01-13  0:06     ` Mark Shepherd
1990-01-11 16:13   ` S. Crispin Cowan
1990-01-12 13:12     ` Mike Harrison
1990-01-11 19:20   ` Vincent Manis
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