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-- Cédric On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:24 PM, 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. > > -- Cédric -- 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.
