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Subject: About protected objects: entries with barriers depending on external
 data = bad practice ?
From: reinert <reinkor@gmail.com>
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Mostly for curiosity:

Assume a protected entry with a barrier depending on external data - and it=
 is waiting for its barrier to become true. It must be laborious to check t=
he barrier depending on something "far-far away"? How is this checking done=
 in practice? The entry waits for other entries, procedures or functions an=
d when they arrive, it may start before them? Or something more efficient?

Letting barriers depend on external data =3D asking for trouble?

reinert,
https://korsnesbiocomputing.no/