Did anyone else have Ben Ari (eskimos and igloos) for their
concurrency book as undergrad? Fortunately I never had to use "dining
philosophers" in any real restaurant situation as we always had enough
forks. I expect LLs take will be a very significant work.
> Fortunately I never had to use "dining philosophers"
I think that was set up as a problem, not the solution, to demonstrate that you can't just take take/release locks and call it a day. (I guess the modern equivalent would be 'synchronized' methods).
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 18.0 ms ] thread> Fortunately I never had to use "dining philosophers"
I think that was set up as a problem, not the solution, to demonstrate that you can't just take take/release locks and call it a day. (I guess the modern equivalent would be 'synchronized' methods).
Did bump into this [0] once though in the context of multi-user communications.
Also I just heard that "eskimo" is erm.. not cool. Sorry to any native Canadians. Hope I won't get the cold shoulder.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_cryptographers_problem