At the top of Adobe's Almaden tower in San Jose, an artwork that doubles as a Semaphore code is ready to be cracked.

By shorting out the semaphore code entirely, this patch fixes the AIM regression while leaving the slow (but fair) semaphore code in place.

First off: This is a class project. I am NOT looking for a complete algorithm to solve my project or any code that solves my problem. I'm looking for a few helpful hints/nudges in the right ...