On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:15:05 +1930
Angel Velásquez <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:11 AM, bardo<[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2009/7/6 Dieter Plaetinck <[email protected]>:
> >> 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

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