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by hoseja 885 days ago
BTW, dining philosophers is an extremely clunky example.
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mrkeen 885 days ago
I was looking to see how it would be relevant, and then:

> we present a case study on how we encountered a deadlock with virtual threads in TPC-C for PostgreSQL, even without the dining philosophers problem.

I guess it was a clunky non-example!

(I was hoping to see a virtual thread solution to compare to:

  https://www.adit.io/posts/2013-05-15-Locks,-Actors,-And-STM-In-Pictures.html
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQXgW55f7cg
  https://hackage.haskell.org/package/stm
)
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