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Subject: Re: Some interesting criticisms of rails
From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer () gmail ! com>
Date: 2005-09-17 20:15:59
Message-ID: 200509170742.29080.rhkramer () gmail ! com
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On Saturday 17 September 2005 05:51 am, Robert Klemme wrote:
> First of all it's five philosophers (i.e. as far as I remeber it's
> important that the number of resource aquisitors is odd). Then of course
> this just serves as an illustrating example. The problem of shared
> resource access is all too common in CS (for example in databases). You
> cannot solve it by introducing a centralized server because that creates a
> bottleneck which defies the purpose of parallel processing. Your waiter is
> not the best solution. If you're interested in more details about how for
> example RDBMS solve this there's a lot of resources out there to read on.
Just replying for "fun", iirc, when I went to school it didn't make any
difference whether the number was odd or even--there was one fork for each
philosopher but he could only eat if he had two forks. (Sounds odd, now.)
But +1 on everything else in your post.
regards,
Randy Kramer
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