@andyb"// Assume timeout will only occur on Deadlock." indeed.

@karelpeeters I know it's a hack but it works with a timeout of > 20ms :)

Yup, that's enough for these challenges for me too 😃.

Hadn't realised it but apparently these interacting processes are actually performing the BubbleSort algorithm.

How so? What are they sorting?

Details here on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/7kjaiu/2017_day_18_what_is_the_duet_actually_doing

Cool!