[Regnore]

Well maybe they just have like a lot of linked lists that they need reversed? With that many people working in parallel you could really increase the throughput of the reversing process. Of course this is assuming that you previously hired people to identify and remove any cyclical nodes in those link lists.

[seanhunter]

Tell me, what's the big O of having the people working in parallel on the reversing? And as a follow-up, can you explain whether it is better if you have a team of n people doing the cycle detection to do it using a system which is eventually consistent or strongly consistent and why?