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		lukesandberg on June 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Use lock addresses to enforce uniform locking orde... Is it? Isn't the bakery algorithm a demonstration of how to build a lock, not how to coordinate multiple locks?

ajarmst on June 15, 2015 [–]

Well, I was thinking about it as a particularly good example of how common it is for exciting "new" solutions to general problems of multithreading turn out to be cases of a classic algorithm that has been well-studied.

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