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  2. Busy waiting - Wikipedia

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    The following C code examples illustrate two threads that share a global integer i. The first thread uses busy-waiting to check for a change in the value of i : #include <pthread.h> #include <stdatomic.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> /* i is global, so it is visible to all functions.

  3. cron - Wikipedia

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    The cron command-line utility is a job scheduler on Unix-like operating systems.Users who set up and maintain software environments use cron to schedule jobs [1] (commands or shell scripts), also known as cron jobs, [2] [3] to run periodically at fixed times, dates, or intervals. [4]

  4. Cooperative multitasking - Wikipedia

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    Cooperative multitasking is similar to async/await in languages, such as JavaScript or Python, that feature a single-threaded event-loop in their runtime. This contrasts with cooperative multitasking in that await cannot be invoked from a non-async function, but only an async function, which is a kind of coroutine .

  5. Coroutine - Wikipedia

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    Python 2.5 implements better support for coroutine-like functionality, based on extended generators ; Python 3.3 improves this ability, by supporting delegating to a subgenerator ; Python 3.4 introduces a comprehensive asynchronous I/O framework as standardized in PEP 3156, which includes coroutines that leverage subgenerator delegation

  6. Reference counting - Wikipedia

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    The overhead in code size required for reference counting is very small (on native x86, typically a single LOCK INC, LOCK DEC or LOCK XADD instruction, which ensures atomicity in any environment), and no separate thread of control is needed for collection as would be needed for a tracing garbage collector.

  7. Sleep (system call) - Wikipedia

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    The sleep() function call can be repeatedly called for short periods of time to slow the execution of a running program or code. Throttling code in this manner provides a coarse mechanism for mitigating the effects of overheating hardware [7] or easing timing issues for legacy programs. The downside to cycling sleep and running states rather ...

  8. anacron - Wikipedia

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    anacron is a computer program that performs periodic command scheduling, which is traditionally done by cron, but without assuming that the system is running continuously.. Thus, it can be used to control the execution of daily, weekly, and monthly jobs (or anything with a period of n days) on systems that don't run 24 hours a

  9. Python (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation. [33]Python is dynamically type-checked and garbage-collected.