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Subject: Re: cs551 Warmup 2 : Queue objects
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:06:33 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > I had a query about the warmup 2, in lec5 slide 13 we have :
  > 
  > "wakes up, creates a customer object, enqueues the
  > customer to Q1, and goes back to sleep"
  > 
  > what does the object here mean ?

It's either a C++ object or a C data structure.  I've
been calling this object "the customer".  A customer
carries timestamps such as when it arrived into the
system, when it got enqueued at Q1, when it left Q1,
which server it go into, when it begins service, and
when it leaves the server, and whatever else you want
to keep track.
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>