Concurrent Programming
Learn how to use concurrent programming to implement code more efficiently.
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Key Concepts
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Computer Programs
Computer Process
Process States
Context Switching
Preemption
Blocked Process
Process Layout
Process Control Block
Computer Programs
Computer Programs
A computer program is a collection of instructions used to perform a certain task.
Processes and Threads
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- 1When using a computer, multiple programs can often be found running at the same time. Perhaps one for playing music, another for creating documents, and one for browsing the web. All of these progr…
- 2To best optimize the performance of processes as their priority changes or as they wait for access to a limited resource, processes are put into one of five states: - New: The program has been sta…
- 3When a process is initialized, its layout within memory has four distinct sections: * A text section for the compiled code * A data section for initialized variables * A stack for local variables …
- 4While a process is an abstract data structure that represents all of the necessary information to run a program, a thread represents the actual sequence of processor instructions that are activel…
- 5Typically, a single CPU core can only execute one thread, and therefore one process, at a time. With a clever use of blocking and context switching, this limitation can be obscured to users through…
- 6Threads can behave differently depending on the environment they are created in. A thread built into the existing process is considered a kernel thread. This means that the kernel within the ope…
- 7Congratulations! You have finished learning about some of the key foundations of an operating system: the processes and threads that all of the other code on the system rests upon. A process is a…
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