Subj : Re: Deadlock theorem To : comp.programming.threads From : David Schwartz Date : Thu May 05 2005 06:24 pm "David Hopwood" wrote in message news:uTxee.30847$Cq2.12290@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk... > For the latter, what you really want is a static analysis, which by > definition has no runtime cost (although it could be quite complicated). I don't believe that. Dynamic behavior is unpredictable. DS .