go(conc): More comments.

diff --git a/go-concurrency-patterns/conc1.go b/go-concurrency-patterns/conc1.go
index 2738bee..a9442d5 100644 (file)
--- a/go-concurrency-patterns/conc1.go
+++ b/go-concurrency-patterns/conc1.go
@@ -77,10 +77,18 @@ func boring4(msg string) <- chan Message {
     c := make(chan Message)
     // Buffering removes a block in main4() loop, when 'true' is send to
     // 'wait' channel. Thus, next message will first arrive from the guy, who
-    // slept less. Without buffering, main4() will wait until slower guy
-    // awakes from 'Sleep' and read 'wait' channel, so the Ann will almost
-    // always be the first one.
+    // slept less.
+    //
+    // Without buffering in wait channel  main4() will wait until _the first_
+    // spoke guy awakes from 'Sleep' (or the last - this depends on the order
+    // of sending to wait channel statements in main4(), see comment there
+    // too).  Thus, even if second guy has woken up from sleep long ago, he's
+    // forced to wait until the first guy wakes up too. Moreover the second
+    // guy always receives its "unblock" signal in wait channel _after_ the
+    // first guy. All these means, that without buffering the order of
+    // messages in bursts will be the same as in first burst most of the time.
     waitForIt := make(chan bool, 2)
+    //waitForIt := make(chan bool)
     go func() {
         for i := 0; ; i++ {
             r := rand.Intn(1e3)
@@ -113,10 +121,17 @@ func fanIn4s(input1, input2 <- chan Message) <-chan Message {
 }
 
 func main4() {
-    c := fanIn4s(boring4("Joe"), boring4("Ann"))
+    //c := fanIn4s(boring4("Joe"), boring4("Ann"))
+    c := fanIn4(boring4("Joe"), boring4("Ann"))
     for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
         msg1 := <-c; fmt.Println(msg1.str)
         msg2 := <-c; fmt.Println(msg2.str)
+        // Reversing the order in which i "permit speakers to go on", results
+        // in interleaving order of messages: in the first burst Ann's message
+        // was last, thus it'll be the first one in the second burst. And in
+        // the second burst Joey's message was last, thus it'll be the first
+        // in the third burst. And in the third burst Ann's message was last,
+        // thus it'll be first in forth burst, etc.
         msg1.wait <- true
         msg2.wait <- true
     }
@@ -260,5 +275,5 @@ func main91() {
 func main() {
     rand.Seed(time.Now().Unix())
 
-    main9()
+    main4()
 }