From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Complexity of protected objects
Date: 2 Mar 2002 17:08:06 -0800
Date: 2002-03-03T01:08:07+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0203021708.4812dbe7@posting.google.com> (raw)
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dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) wrote in message news:<4519e058.0202251401.27b95bb0@posting.google.com>...
> I've generally found that to be good advice. In particular, my PO's
> always seem to end up just being specialized semaphores or locks, no
> matter how grandiose I start out planning to make them. Things just
> work a lot better that way.
This is MUCH too restrictive, it is perfectly reasonable
to have a large complex data structure as a protected type
where the operations on it ensure that consistency is
maintained by doing related updates in a non-interruptible
manner.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-25 16:28 Complexity of protected objects tony gair
2002-02-25 16:45 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-03 1:11 ` Robert Dewar
2002-03-03 4:13 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-03-03 19:50 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-25 17:35 ` Jim Rogers
2002-02-28 22:09 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-28 23:32 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-03-01 5:45 ` Jim Rogers
2002-03-03 0:59 ` Robert Dewar
2002-03-01 17:42 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-03-03 1:06 ` Robert Dewar
2002-03-03 6:53 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-03-03 19:36 ` Robert Dewar
2002-03-04 20:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-03-03 0:54 ` Robert Dewar
2002-03-03 0:32 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-25 22:01 ` Ted Dennison
2002-03-03 1:08 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2002-03-04 9:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2002-03-04 16:44 ` Ted Dennison
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