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On 7/25/19 8:56 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 
> 	Ignoring the synchronization part, the loops have a one second delay
> per cycle, and you are incrementing an integer.
> 
> 	Presuming integer is 32 bits, that means a loop that will take
> 
>>>> 0x7FFFFFFF
> 2147483647
>>>>
> 
> seconds to complete. According to my HP-48sx, 2147483647_s ->
> 68.0511038598_yr (assuming integers generate overflow exceptions, your
> program will complete sometime in 2087)

No, T2 will complete then. T1, and so the whole program, will then be blocked 
indefinitely, IIUC the semantics of the Synchronous_Barrier.

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Jeff Carter
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