From 4aae9be7cdd1ee595096fc5799e79aba603fa395 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kyle Isom <kyle@imap.cc>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:05:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Start ring stuff.

---
 pe/ring.erl | 7 +++++++
 pe/ring.go  | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 pe/ring.erl
 create mode 100644 pe/ring.go

diff --git a/pe/ring.erl b/pe/ring.erl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..78d2547
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pe/ring.erl
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+%% Write a ring benchmark. Create N processes in a ring. Send a
+%% message around the ring N times so that a total of N * M messages
+%% get sent. Time how long this takes for different values of N and M.
+%%
+%% Write a similar program in some other programming language you are
+%% familiar with. Compare the results. Write a blog, and publish the
+%% results on the internet!
diff --git a/pe/ring.go b/pe/ring.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..51d232c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pe/ring.go
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+package main
+
+type Message struct {
+	RCount int // how many times around the ring have we been
+	FCount int // how many times has the message been forwarded
+}