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Toyota’s problem: hardware weenies and poor accounting practices [updated]

Posted on February 6, 2010 by admin

Jamie Kitman’s look at the twisted path Toyota followed to it’s current difficulties inspired me to think about software and money – two topics I spend way too much time thinking about. As a purely disinterested observer (ahem) it has … Continue reading →

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Linux semaphores

Posted on January 29, 2010 by admin

Re: Schedule idle MOLNAR Ingo (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu) Wed, 11 Nov 1998 04:09:32 +0100 (CET) [...] > _please_ We can do better than this. Only semaphores (not spinlocks) need > to have the priority inheritance. [...] nope there are _not_ only semaphores, … Continue reading →

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Deterministic multithreading

Posted on August 10, 2009 by admin

An interesting paper appearing in ASPLOS proceedings provides a “deterministic” locking method Kendo enforces a deterministic interleaving of lock acquisitions and specially declared non-protected reads through a novel dynamically load-balanced deterministic scheduling algorithm. The algorithm tracks the progress of each … Continue reading →

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