To limit the amount of text on a slide, the textbook recommends that you follow the 8 x 8 guideline

The human body exhibits remarkable resilience. State three examples in which the body compensates for failure of single body parts

What will be an ideal response?

A spin lock (see Bacon [2002]) is a boolean variable accessed via an atomic test-and-set instruction, which is used to obtain mutual exclusion. Would you use a spin lock to obtain mutual exclusion between threads on a single-processor computer?

What will be an ideal response?