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  2. Busy waiting - Wikipedia

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    Busy-waiting itself can be made much less wasteful by using a delay function (e.g., sleep()) found in most operating systems. This puts a thread to sleep for a specified time, during which the thread will waste no CPU time. If the loop is checking something simple then it will spend most of its time asleep and will waste very little CPU time.

  3. Longest-processing-time-first scheduling - Wikipedia

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    The running time of LPT is dominated by the sorting, which takes O(n log n) time, where n is the number of inputs. LPT is monotone in the sense that, if one of the input numbers increases, the objective function (the largest sum or the smallest sum of a subset in the output) weakly increases. [2] This is in contrast to Multifit algorithm.

  4. Anytime algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Anytime algorithms are designed so that it can be told to stop at any time and would return the best result it has found so far. [3] This is why it is called an interruptible algorithm. Certain anytime algorithms also maintain the last result, so that if they are given more time, they can continue from where they left off to obtain an even ...

  5. Earliest deadline first scheduling - Wikipedia

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    Earliest deadline first (EDF) or least time to go is a dynamic priority scheduling algorithm used in real-time operating systems to place processes in a priority queue. Whenever a scheduling event occurs (task finishes, new task released, etc.) the queue will be searched for the process closest to its deadline.

  6. Callback (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    In computer programming, a callback is a function that is stored as data (a reference) and designed to be called by another function – often back to the original abstraction layer. A function that accepts a callback parameter may be designed to call back before returning to its caller which is known as synchronous or blocking.

  7. Time formatting and storage bugs - Wikipedia

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    The Arduino platform provides relative time via the millis() function. This function returns an unsigned 32-bit integer representing "milliseconds since startup", which will roll over every 49 days. By default, this is the only timing source available in the platform and programs need to take special care to handle rollovers. [98]

  8. M/G/1 queue - Wikipedia

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    where as above is the Laplace–Stieltjes transform of the service time distribution function. This relationship can only be solved exactly in special cases (such as the M/M/1 queue ), but for any s {\textstyle s} the value of ϕ ( s ) {\textstyle \phi (s)} can be calculated and by iteration with upper and lower bounds the distribution function ...

  9. Futures and promises - Wikipedia

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    Use of futures may be implicit (any use of the future automatically obtains its value, as if it were an ordinary reference) or explicit (the user must call a function to obtain the value, such as the get method of java.util.concurrent.Futurein Java). Obtaining the value of an explicit future can be called stinging or forcing. Explicit futures ...