Advances in Programming Languages 2018/19 Lecture 11: Cautionary Tales in Concurrency
This lecture concluded the set on concurrency with three distinctive challenges for concurrent programming and some possible solutions: lock networks, deadlock, and hand-over-hand locking; priority inversion in thread scheduling; and the relaxed memory models used in current processor architectures.
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