in the main package,

    # join the people threads and collect statistics
    my ($total_wait, $total_ride, $max_wait, $max_ride) = (0,0,0,0);
    foreach (@people) {
        my ($wait1, $wait2, $ride1, $ride2) = $_->join;
        $total_wait += $wait1 + $wait2;
        $total_ride += $ride1 + $ride2;
        $max_wait    = $wait1 if $wait1 > $max_wait;
        $max_wait    = $wait2 if $wait2 > $max_wait;
        $max_ride    = $ride1 if $ride1 > $max_ride;
        $max_ride    = $ride2 if $ride2 > $max_ride;
    }

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is shorter and more clearly written as:

    # join the people threads and collect statistics
    my ($total_wait, $total_ride, $max_wait, $max_ride) = (0,0,0,0);
    foreach (@people) {
        my ($wait1, $wait2, $ride1, $ride2) = $_->join;
        $total_wait = $wait1 + $wait2;
        $total_ride = $ride1 + $ride2;
        $max_wait   = $wait1 > $wait2 ? $wait1 : $wait2;
        $max_ride   = $ride1 > $ride2 ? $ride1 : $ride2;
    }

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in the Elevator class, the constant STARTING is declared and never used.

as an aside: in new york city, there are three buildings with double-decker elevators (i've worked in two of them.) lobby and mezzanine are the base levels, and when going up you must use the lobby for odd floors (L 3 5 7 ... ) and mezzanine for odd floors (M 4 6 8 ...). going down, you can reach any floor from either level (except the edge case at the bottom.) i believe the Elevator class can be easily subclassed to handle this scenario as well. cool.

~Particle *accelerates*

In reply to Re: Multi-Threaded Elevator Simulator by particle
in thread Multi-Threaded Elevator Simulator by samtregar

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