A multithreaded web server wishes to keep track of the number of requests it services (known as hits). Consider the two following
strategies to prevent a race condition on the variable hits. The first
strategy is to use a basic mutex lock when updating hits:

int hits;
mutex lock hit lock;

hit lock. acquire();
hits++;
hit lock. release();

A second strategy is to use an atomic integer:

atomic t hits;
atomic inc(&hits);

Explain which of these two strategies is more efficient.

Write a modular program (no classes yet, just from what you learned last year), that allows two players to play a game of tic-tac-toe. use a two-dimensional char array with 3 rows and 3 columns as the game board. each element of the array should be initialized with an asterisk (*). the program should display the initial board configuration and then start a loop that does the following: allow player 1 to select a location on the board for an x by entering a row and column number. then redisplay the board with an x replacing the * in the chosen location. if there is no winner yet and the board is not yet full, allow player 2 to select a location on the board for an o by entering a row and column number. then redisplay the board with an o replacing the * in the chosen location. the loop should continue until a player has won or a tie has occurred, then display a message indicating who won, or reporting that a tie occurred. player 1 wins when there are three xs in a row, a column, or a diagonal on the game board. player 2 wins when there are three ox in a row, a column, or a diagonal on the game board. a tie occurs when all of the locations on the board are full, but there is no winner. input validation: only allow legal moves to be entered. the row must be 1, 2, or 3. the column must be 1, 2 3. the (row, column) position entered must currently be empty (i. e., still have an asterisk in it).

The following is an excerpt from a slide presentation. today we will inverse operations solving equations using inverse operations solving inequalities using inverse operations from which part of the presentation does the slide most likely come from? a. introduction b. outline c. body d. conclusion

Least square fit to polynomial write a function leastsquarefit3pol that solves a linear system of equations to find a least squares fit of a third order polynomial to an experimental data set given as two row arrays. the function leastsquarefit3pol must explicitly solve a set of linear equations and cannot use polyfit. there should be no restriction on the size of the problem that can be solved.