semaphores do not access like volatile

Robert Withers rwithers12 at attbi.com
Mon Feb 10 14:47:51 UTC 2003


On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 09:36 AM, Lex Spoon wrote:

> In general, programs that use SharedQueues tend to be easier to write
> and debug than programs using semaphore's plus shared state.  So maybe
> learn them and love them!

It has a stream interface, as well!  :-)

I have a shared priority queue alternative as well, if you are 
interested in that.

rob



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