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lock

Also known as mutex

synchronization mechanism for enforcing limits on concurrent access to a resource

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synchronization

non-blocking algorithm

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computer science

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What links here266 pages

parallel computing

Read-modify-write

resource acquisition is initialization

critical section

Read-copy-update

producer-consumer problem

two-phase locking

blackboard pattern

Operational transformation

global variable

Christopher Alexander

entity component system

linearizability