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In computer science, simultaneity or concurrency is a property of systems in which multiple calculations can be performed in periods of overlapping time. Calculations can run on multiple cores on the same chip, preventively threaded shared in time on the same processor, or run on physically separate processors.
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viewsIs it always guaranteed that a multi-threaded application runs faster than using a single thread?
It is possible to observe in some cases that the separation of tasks into multiple threads does not give gain and even makes an application slower than the use in thread unique. It should not always…
competition performance multithreading parallelism optimizingasked 10 years, 8 months ago Maniero 444,682 -
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viewsWhat’s wrong with gluttonous philosophers?
When it comes to concurrent programming, they always mention 3 classic problems/competition models: producers and consumers readers and writers glutton philosophers (or dinner of philosophers) I…
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viewsHow does the C#lock work?
I was just looking at an article by MSDN, but it was not clear why to use this. class Account { decimal balance; private Object thisLock = new Object(); public void Withdraw(decimal amount) { lock…
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viewsWhat is the difference between async, multithreading, parallelism and competition?
What is the difference between async, multithreading, etc..? They depend on the amount of processor cores? If I do a program in Visual Basic and open 33 instances of it, would it be running in…
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viewsWhat is competition control?
About the studies I was doing at the time I asked What is a traffic light?, informed me that, in order to better understand this term, I should study about Control of Competition. Could someone…
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viewsConcurrent Programming x Parallel x Distributed
What are, what are the characteristics of each? Problems that each one proposes to solve? Main difference between them?
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viewsWhat are the states of a thread?
I have been researching some places on the Internet but I did not find consistency in the definitions given on the subject of thread in Java. What are the possible states of a thread and what are…
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viewsIn programming, what is the actor model?
I have a co-worker who is an advocate of model actor (model of actors, in Portuguese). In general, it seems to be a software architecture to be applied in distributed systems or in the cloud. From…
software-architecture competition microservices actor-modelasked 7 years, 7 months ago Bruno Costa 5,878 -
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viewsHow to perform a function after two or more asynchronous events?
I have a jQuery script that starts two or more asynchronous operations at the same time, and would like to run a callback when all they have been completed. An example would be to start an animation…
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viewsAre static classes shared by threads?
Static classes, methods and properties are shared between threads of the application? That is, if I modify the static property foo in ThreadA, and then modify the same static property foo in…
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viewsParallelism and Simultaneity
Reading a few things on the subject, I realized they are not the same thing, so I would like to find out: What’s the difference between Parallelism and Simultaneity in proceedings?…
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viewsWhat is a Memory Model?
Reading the Wikipedia article in English discovered that Java was the first popular language to have a memory model in the presence of well-defined threads, followed by C++11. Reading the article in…
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viewsWhat is the difference between Traffic Light and Monitor?
I have a doubt in the concept of these two structures. What would be the difference between them? Which is faster? And which is easier to use? Could you give me a basic example of each?…
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viewsEfficient data structure for high color concurrent problem
As part of a test I was asked to develop an application to manage high Scores in environments with high competition. This application should not persist on disk or use libraries and frameworks…
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viewsWhy do we pass an object to the statement lock?
I’m working with multithreading and fell in a competition case. More than one thread accessed an I/O operation on the same file and so an exception was triggered. To solve the problem, I did so:…
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viewsDeadlock concept in Java
I came across the term deadlock in Java. But, I can’t understand it. So I would like to ask these questions: What is a deadlock? Why and how to avoid a deadlock?
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viewsHow to do concurrency control in Hibernate for INSERT in the database
I’m having a competition control problem in entering data in my web application. Context: I have 3 tables (ex: X, Y and Z) that record hospitalizations of patients (already registered). A patient…
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viewsWhat is the syncblock?
I received a reply about a syncblock. Why is it necessary? I understand what I researched is about competition control. But why does every object need it if not everyone will have competition?…
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viewsHow to make atomic updates with Triemap and Concurrenthashmap?
In Java ConcurrentHashMap has an interesting property. Operations such as putIfAbsent, remove, replace, computeIfAbsent, computeIfPresent, compute and merge are atomic. Example: final Map<String,…
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viewsBasic competition in Erlang
Adapted of this issue no stack overflow international, whose answer is my own. The next code was given in a class. We tested the code, but I didn’t really understand how it works. How this code…
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viewsJavafx Threads Update UI and load System in the background
I have a Stage Main that is my Login: In the FXML of that Stage I have a Region and a ProgressIndicator with the property setVisible(false) After successfully logging into the application the…
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viewsHow to work with lock in SQL records?
I’m studying best practice to work with lock of records. What I mean is, I have several tables that can be accessed by several users simultaneously, but if any attempt is made to edit the record,…
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viewsWhat is the livelock?
The term deadlock is well known in concurrent programming, but I came across the term livelock in my studies, and I wondered what that might be? What is livelock? And could you give some example…
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viewsIn Assumptions on Timing - I don’t understand this concept of a book
Cited in the book that a critical region has 4 key points: Progress: Ensures that all threads are entering and leaving the critical region, avoiding deadlocks. Mutually Exclusive: Only one thread…
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viewsWhat are Fibers in Ruby and how to use them?
I was trying to do a reverse proxy using Webrick when I discovered that the version I had installed from Webrick did not contain the methods necessary to make a "chunked" worthy reading. So I…
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viewsIs there a difference between corroding, fiber and green threads?
According to the title of the question, I see these names being used to describe very similar things. In the Python world we have Greenlets described as corroding and Green Threads. In the Java…
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viewsCompeting transactions in Mysql
I am working on a system that needs to draw multiple data(coupons) from one table and return to the user, but I cannot risk delivering the same coupon to the other user. I thought I’d use the…
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viewsUse a Threadpool or just start a new Thread?
Let’s say the software every time creates a new Runnable to perform a basic function at each cycle, at the end of a running day I would have a few hundred Threads of this function created and…
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viewsWhat are Java daemon threads and when to use them?
From the Java documentation I follow the following excerpt: The Java Virtual Machine exits when the only threads running are all daemon threads. But it’s still unclear to me when to set a thread as…
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viewsIs it correct to cast an exception within a Synchronized?
In my app there are some threads that access the database and control this competition using the totalcross Lock. My question is: Can I allow exceptions to be thrown into a Synchronized block ? or…
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viewsProblem capturing the title of a URL using regular expression
I’m learning Go language in the competition part. I had the challenge of using the Generator standard to get a Channel that reads the title of a URL through a goroutine. Inside this goroutine that I…
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viewsHow can I check lock-free (lock-free) algorithms?
Is there any tool/process/methodology available to prove that a competing program but that does not use Locks in its critical regions is correct?
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viewsConcurrent.Utures and Class Object
I am trying to create a class (Processor) that runs a series of functions to get results from a State-to-State API. (STATE) 1- READ data from a table. 2-SEND request for the API to process. 3- WAIT…
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viewsHow does optimistic competition work?
In an application with pessimistic competition there is data containment usually involving Locking mechanisms. In optimistic competition no. Two clients can try to write but only one can. What are…
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viewsReturn to main() after using start()
After executing the command gerenciador.start(), my program does not return to the function main, and does not print the message is over. It simply executes the command I have spoken. Does anyone…
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viewsConcurrent programming
Hello, I’m having trouble finding the error in the code below. It is a problem where ideally, having 5 vacancies available, any one of the types of threads (server or trainee) can be sit freely, but…
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viewsWhat is a Promise?
Why does it exist? How does it work and how should it be used in the simplest way? Any specific care? When is abuse to adopt this mechanism? Exists only in Javascript?
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viewsProblem sending arrays from one method to another using Thread in Java
I’m doing a program that simulates sending a message from the physical layer to another physical layer of the OSI (ISO reference) model of networks. My code has a method that sends "frames"…
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viewsRegister certified "https" protocol for SOAP(Axis 2) request
I created a service to register the "https" protocol and inject the certificate into it using the Socketfactory implementation, but it works well only one request at a time, but when using…
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viewsHow to block part of a method to be processed only once per request with . net core
i have to increment a column in the database and this increment may depend on the situation, for example increment according to the user, I am using Jmeter to send 100 requests at the same time, but…
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viewsJava competition, simple example, multi-threaded hash map not secure
I’m using a hash map to assign the voto at the id of a voter. But the class has several threads operating on top of the method addVote(...) and getVoteCount(...) , and the result returned is always…
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viewsLog reading to infer counter
I have a template called Request and this template has a column called Number. This number has the following structure: YEAR + COUNTER. It just so happens that every time I create a new request I…
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viewsSimultaneous access API Rest
I have a PHP application that receives json from another application and writes them to the Mysql database. Before recording the data, I check the database to see if the record has already been…
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viewsMulti-thread concurrency control
I need to develop a Windows Service with C# that checks a table in the database (Sql Server 2008). This table has the data I need and a Status field(Ready,Processing, Processed, Error). The service…
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viewsHow to make Requestcontext thread-safe?
In one project I am using the component "Demoiselle-Scheduler-Quartz". In this project several threads are fired and executed concurrently. The "Demoiselle-Scheduler-Quartz" component injects the…
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viewsRunning code snippets in parallel
Hello, I wanted to know how to run one thread after another for a certain time, for example: Thread x = new Thread(() -> { // qualquer código, pode ter até um while(true)... }); Thread x2 = new…
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viewsHow does Javascript competition work?
I have a possible problem in javascript. The problem is that an array can have concurrent access because the following script below can be called at the same time several times because I use…
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viewsThread - Shared Memory Access Violation
I use a library to retrieve data from an Image (in unsigned char*), and use it to allocate to an Opengl Buffer (Texture). Since the image can be large, Opengl by default creates another thread to…
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viewsMy Node js API mixes data from different requests
I developed a private app on Zapier.com. The framework is in Node js. And it is composed of triggers and actions. In one of my actions, when it is desplotted several triggers simultaneously I get…
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viewsError in requests with aiohttp in asyncio
import time import urllib.request import asyncio import aiohttp URL = 'https://api.github.com/events' MAX_CLIENTS = 10 def fetch_sync(pid): print('Fetch sync process {} started'.format(pid)) start =…