Summary
Concurrent programming includes all the necessary tools and techniques to have multiple tasks or process running at the same time in a computer, communicating and synchronizing between them without data loss or inconsistency.
We started this chapter by introducing the basic concepts of concurrency. You must know and understand terms such as concurrency, parallelism, and synchronization to fully understand the examples of this book. However, concurrency can generate some problems, such as data race conditions, deadlocks, livelocks, and others. You must also know the potential problems of a concurrent application. It will help you identify and solve these problems.
We also explained a simple methodology of five steps introduced by Intel to ...
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