On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:15:05 +1930
Angel Velásquez <
angvp@...> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:11 AM, bardo<
ilbardo@...> wrote:
> > 2009/7/6 Dieter Plaetinck <
dieter@...>:
> >> Surely you can. use e-mail to lock a mutex.
> >
> > That's the "volleyball technique". The first that shouts "MINE!!!"
> > gets the ball ;)
> >
>
> Hahaha, in this side of the continent is the "baseball technique" :D
> (anyway sorry for the off-topic)
>
> All I can say is bash and foutrelis are too efficient :D
>
Fast != efficient. I think they do a lot of context switching. Also
look at all the overhead they've created...
;-)
Dieter