Did you hear the rumours about famous stars of stage and screen? Apparently they have their own exclusive pizzerias, open 24 hours (no locks on the doors!) featuring bizarre eating rituals. The first person on the table will receive a pizza, cut what they want, and pass it on to another diner. This can go on for a while, with pizzas freely being passed back and forth, though they do occasionally stack up in from of popular people.
On 7 October 2010 00:24, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
