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Subject: Re: Large number of tasks slows down my program (using debian) - any
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On 04/05/2018 09:44 PM, Simon Wright wrote:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:
> 
>> On 04/05/2018 04:07 PM, Brad Moore wrote:
>>>
>>> The problem there is to create 503 tasks, and then use some sort of
>>> message passing to pass a "token" in a ring from from task to the
>>> next, 50_000_000 times, printing out the task number that ended up
>>> with the token at the end.
>>
>> Isn't the answer always 291?
> 
> In the three I looked at the answer was 292.

I guess it depends on where the token starts. If it starts outside the ring and 
is 1st passed to task 1, the answer is 291. If it starts in task 1 and is 1st 
passed to task 2, the answer is 292. I think.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Sir Lancelot saves Sir Gallahad from almost certain temptation."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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