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  2. Futures and promises - Wikipedia

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    In the Dojo Toolkit's Deferred API as of version 1.5, a consumer-only promise object represents a read-only view. [7] In Alice ML, futures provide a read-only view, whereas a promise contains both a future and the ability to resolve the future [8] [9] In .NET System.Threading.Tasks.Task<T> represents a read-only view.

  3. Dining philosophers problem - Wikipedia

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    Problem statement. Five philosophers dine together at the same table. Each philosopher has their own plate at the table. There is a fork between each plate. The dish served is a kind of spaghetti which has to be eaten with two forks. Each philosopher can only alternately think and eat. Moreover, a philosopher can only eat their spaghetti when ...

  4. Mutual exclusion - Wikipedia

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    Mutual exclusion. Two nodes, i and i + 1, being removed simultaneously results in node i + 1 not being removed. In computer science, mutual exclusion is a property of concurrency control, which is instituted for the purpose of preventing race conditions. It is the requirement that one thread of execution never enters a critical section while a ...

  5. Thread safety - Wikipedia

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    Thread safe, MT-safe: Use a mutex for every single resource to guarantee the thread to be free of race conditions when those resources are accessed by multiple threads simultaneously. Thread safety guarantees usually also include design steps to prevent or limit the risk of different forms of deadlocks, as well as optimizations to maximize ...

  6. Monitor (synchronization) - Wikipedia

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    Monitor (synchronization) In concurrent programming, a monitor is a synchronization construct that prevents threads from concurrently accessing a shared object's state and allows them to wait for the state to change. They provide a mechanism for threads to temporarily give up exclusive access in order to wait for some condition to be met ...

  7. Dekker's algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Dekker's algorithm is the first known correct solution to the mutual exclusion problem in concurrent programming where processes only communicate via shared memory. The solution is attributed to Dutch mathematician Th. J. Dekker by Edsger W. Dijkstra in an unpublished paper on sequential process descriptions [1] and his manuscript on cooperating sequential processes. [2]

  8. Concurrency (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    Concurrency (computer science) In computer science, concurrency is the ability of different parts or units of a program, algorithm, or problem to be executed out-of-order or in partial order, without affecting the outcome. This allows for parallel execution of the concurrent units, which can significantly improve overall speed of the execution ...

  9. Actor model - Wikipedia

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    Actor model. The actor model in computer science is a mathematical model of concurrent computation that treats an actor as the basic building block of concurrent computation. In response to a message it receives, an actor can: make local decisions, create more actors, send more messages, and determine how to respond to the next message received.