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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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QuestionCargo cult programming for thread safe variable access? Pin
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Luc Pattyn16-Aug-10 5:23
sitebuilderLuc Pattyn16-Aug-10 5:23 
iberg wrote:
Who is inventing all those terms?


I'm not.


iberg wrote:
just the unnecessary locks


yeah, they may heavily influence code execution times, and that is why I would not touch them unless I have a work hypothesis that links the problem to them. I'd rather improve observability (add logging) and do whatever it takes to increase the problem frequency (as in reduce unnecessary delays, replace human/external input by automatic/local input, reduce the data set). I rather get 10 crashes/deadlocks a day with lots of logging, than reduce the problem frequency to once a month, which makes it almost impossible to solve at all.

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