Subj : Re: Challenge: Multithreading & Synchronization
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Wed May 18 2005 01:59 pm


"Uenal Mutlu" <520001085531-0001@t-online.de> wrote in message 
news:d6g5en$udc$00$1@news.t-online.com...

> "David Schwartz" wrote

>> "Uenal Mutlu" wrote in message

>> > If you feel it needs to be fixed then just say what part you think 
>> > should
>> > be fixed.
>> > What's unclear to you?
>> > The aim is to collect multiple solutions to the problem.

>>     You've started by mandating a horribly bad architecture, namely one 
>> in
>> which a very large number of threads is used. The first step to solving 
>> the
>> problem if it occured in the real world would be to rearchitect so that 
>> only
>> a small number of threads was needed.

> You can also take, say just only 10 threads. The problem would be 
> obviously
> the same for any number of threads >=2.

    It is not the number of threads, but the forced association between a 
thread and something outside the program that has a long duration, such as a 
connection or client.

    DS

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