This lesson clarifies the common misunderstandings and confusions around concurrency and parallelism.
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This lesson details the differences between the two prevailing models of multitasking.
This lesson discusses the differences between asynchronous and synchronous programming, which are often talked about in the context of concurrency.
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In this lesson, we delve into the characteristics of programs with different resource-use profiles and how that can affect program design choices.
This lesson discusses throughput and latency in the context of concurrent systems.
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This lesson discusses the differences between a program, a process, and a thread. Also included is a pseudocode-example of a thread-unsafe program.
This lesson introduces concurrency and provides motivational examples to further our understanding…
We discuss important concurrency concepts such as deadlock, liveness, live-lock, starvation, and reentrant locks in depth. Also included are executable code examples for illustrating these concepts.
The concept of and the differences between a mutex and a semaphore will befuddle most…
In this lesson, let’s learn what a monitor is and how it is different than a mutex. Monitors…
