[Tobiah]

On 07/29/2013 10:37 AM, Les Cargill wrote:
Ron C wrote:
On 7/29/2013 1:15 PM, Les Cargill wrote:
Mike Rivers wrote:
On 7/29/2013 8:15 AM, Les Cargill wrote:

Software isn't intermittent.
Yes, it is. Frequently.

No, it isn't. The environment is intermittent.




*Sigh* Software can be, and frequently is intermittent.
Trust me on this...

Examples please.

A multi-track recorder uses a different thread for
each track. As it turns out, those threads need to
access some global setting like tempo. Normally the
check so seldom, a million clock cycles go by in between.
The programmer forgot to make the tempo setting thread
safe, and once every hundredth time the use adjusts the
tempo slider *while playing* two threads contend for the
same resource, and one can't handle it and borks out.

Easy for the programmer to fix if it ever happens to
him while testing.