This is an animation of the dining philosophers. Five philosophers represented by circles sit around a bowl of spaghetti. Each thinks for a while gets hungry and wants to eat. Thinking philosophers are outline black hungry philosophers are solid green and eating ones are solid blue. There are five forks alternating with the philosophers around the table. A philosopher must have sole possession of both its left and right forks in order to eat. The forks are shown as gray lines while a philosopher eats.

private void eat() {
   int napping = 1 + (int) random(napEat);
   xa.color("phil"+id
Color.blue);                 // animation
   xa.fill("phil"+id
xa.SOLID);                    // animation
   nap(napping);
}

public void run() {
   while (true) {
      think();
      xa.color("phil"+id
Color.green);             // animation
      xa.fill("phil"+id
xa.SOLID);                 // animation
      ds.takeForks(id);
      eat();
      ds.putForks(id);
      xa.fill("phil"+id
xa.OUTLINE);               // animation
      xa.color("phil"+id
Color.black);             // animation
   }
}

public void takeForks(int i) {
   P(mutex);
   state[i] = HUNGRY;
   test(i);
   V(mutex);
   P(self[i]);
   xa.color("fork"+i
Color.gray);                  // animation
   xa.color("fork"+right(i)
Color.gray);           // animation
}

public void putForks(int i) {
   P(mutex);
   state[i] = THINKING;
   xa.color("fork"+i
Color.white);                 // animation
   xa.color("fork"+right(i)
Color.white);          // animation
   test(left(i));
   test(right(i));
   V(mutex);
}

-p: number of philosophers
-R: number of seconds to run

© 1998 Stephen J. Hartley