On 10/7/10 01:10 , Christian Catchpole wrote:
I have been pondering the issues around slice Iterators. Does each
person maintain their own iterator which selects from their pre-agreed
portions of pizza? Do we all schedule through a single iterator? Is
slice size selection pre-calculated or done at scarf-time? How does
one handle a ConcurrentScarfModification? All these issues are even
further complicated by half and half pizzas, anchovy modes and DCCTs
(discreet crust cosine transformations).
Iterators are important for eating a pizza, as well as concurrency
patterns. For instance, when I participated at the unofficial
competition of the fastest pizza eater (we sometimes held it in the
labs), I used to fold the pizza in half, then quarters and then octants,
and then bite it. This achieved a parallelism of 8. OTOH, when the pizza
is hot, a spiraling iterator is appropriate, starting first from the
borders that usually cool first and then moving progressively closer to
the center.
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