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<LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence &lt;<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>&gt;</LI>
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On Sun, 3 May 1998 19:22:52 -5 
Jon A Lambert&lt;jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com&gt; wrote:

&gt; Another possible downside of both C&amp;C and S&amp;S:

&gt;  A() {
&gt;      for each object in(biglistX) {
&gt;         objX = biglistX.current();
&gt;         objX.prop = expr;
&gt;      }  
&gt;  }

&gt; What are the odds of this ever completing?  Perhaps slim to none?

Quite.  My solution is almost identical to yours:

  Event {
    for each object in biglist {
      log event XXX.modify (object)
    }
  }

When the event executes it adds events for all the objects that need
to be processed to its exit criteria.  When it then C&amp;C's those events 
are added to the Dispatchor and are processes as per normal from there.
    
&gt; J.C. Lawrence is pretty steadfast in that C&amp;C will outperform
&gt; locking and I am still skeptical.  

Umm, no, I'm not.  I maintain that the two have different curves under
load and contention that are incredibly dependent on the exact loading
characteristics, and that I am satisfied with C&amp;C's performance
characteristics.  C&amp;C is not a godsend.  It has its own problems,
especially in recovery of process stack state, and in ordering.

&gt; The only thing I can say with reasonable certainty is that event
&gt; rescheduling will be more frequent in C&amp;C than in S&amp;S.  And
&gt; execution wait time will be longer in S&amp;S than in C&amp;C.  How this
&gt; falls out in average throughput time, I an less certain.

Quite.  I expect it will be much more platform, process model, thread
model, implementation etc dependent as vs model dependent.

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<LI><strong><A NAME="00542" HREF="msg00542.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>, 
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 13 May 1998, 18:23 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00560" HREF="msg00560.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>, 
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Wed 13 May 1998, 22:14 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00339" HREF="msg00339.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>, 
Felix A. Croes <a href="mailto:felix#xs1,simplex.nl">felix#xs1,simplex.nl</a>, Sun 03 May 1998, 17:45 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00345" HREF="msg00345.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>, 
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Sun 03 May 1998, 16:50 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00446" HREF="msg00446.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>, 
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 06 May 1998, 23:03 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00443" HREF="msg00443.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>, 
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 06 May 1998, 22:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00376" HREF="msg00376.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>, 
Felix A. Croes <a href="mailto:felix#xs1,simplex.nl">felix#xs1,simplex.nl</a>, Mon 04 May 1998, 17:25 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00383" HREF="msg00383.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>, 
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Mon 04 May 1998, 20:20 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00388" HREF="msg00388.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: atomic functions</A></strong>, 
Joel Dillon <a href="mailto:emily#cornholio,new.ox.ac.uk">emily#cornholio,new.ox.ac.uk</a>, Tue 05 May 1998, 07:17 GMT
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