The Santa Claus ProblemThe Santa Claus Problem Simon Peyton Jones, in "Beautiful Concurrency", [1] a chapter of Beautiful Code, presents the Santa Claus problem and a solution: A well-known example is the so-called Santa Claus problem, originally attributed to Trono: [2] Santa repeatedly sleeps until wakened by either all of his nine reindeer, back from their holidays, or by a group of three of his ten elves. If awakene
