On 8/10/2012 0:59, Invisible wrote:
> Why must all algorithms do to with multithreading have food in their names?
>
> First the dining philosophers, and now this?

The dining philosophers introduced "starvation" of resources.

The bakery algorithm is called that because you "take a number" just like at 
the bakery.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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