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28 February 2012, 09:51

Please post in here before updating either binary counting thread and post again when you are done.

While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'
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28 February 2012, 09:54

It's kind of funny/cool that the binary thread genuinely could be used in a CS lecture as a real-world example of threading issues.

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28 February 2012, 09:56

If I want to post in both do I need 2 locks or 1?
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28 February 2012, 10:01

lock (the one in general).

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28 February 2012, 10:02

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This definitely shows the cost of synchronisation of threads. There is a 1 minute overhead (2x 30 second wait between posts) for what was a 2 second job.

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