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From: "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>
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"Eric Sosman" <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote in message 
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> On 4/9/2011 12:08 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>> Eric Sosman<esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>  writes:
>>> manipulates).  Make sure the data is always seen in a consistent
>>> state, except perhaps by the *one* thread that's in the act of
>>> changing it; then you'll have a correct program.
>>
>>    It still could have potential deadlocks. [...]
>
>     I also wrote, in the part you snipped
>
> >> (It might not be
> >> the fastest possible program -- that's where the hard parts come
> >> in -- but at least it won't have race conditions.)
>
> Deadlock is merely a performance problem.  A really, Really,
> REALLY bad performance problem. ;)


There's a reason it's not call slightlyilllock.