On 8/28/2013 8:03 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
As Chris Blaicher and Sam Siegel have suggested, PAUSE/RELEASE is logically complete. Anything that can be accomplished with WAIT/POST can be accomplished, more elegantly and with fewer barred windows and culs de sac, with PAUSE/RELEASE.
Logically complete with one exception: PAUSE/RELEASE does not support allow for the equivalent of a "wait list." A program can WAIT on a list of events and indicate _how many_ events must complete before it will be awakened by the operating system.
I have used wait lists many times in my programming, but I'll admit my wait count has never exceeded one.
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