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Concurrency

Concurrency glossary.

Topics Computing Programming

Terms listing

A

Actor model Asynchronous Asynchronous vs synchronous (non-blocking, concurrent vs blocking, sequential)

C

Communicating sequential processes (CSP)Compute-bound vs i/o-bound Concurrency Concurrent (order-independent) vs sequential Control dependencies vs data dependencies Control flow vs dataflow (imperative vs declarative)

G

H

Hybrid user and system threads

I

Internal nondeterminism vs external (observable) nondeterminism Internal vs external

L

Layers of abstraction

M

N

Nondeterministic vs deterministic

O

Overlapping vs interleaved lifetimes (true parallelism vs pseudo-parallelism)

P

Parallel vs serial Parallelism Preemptive vs cooperative Process

S

Scheduling (flow control, temporal composition)Shared-memory system threads vs message passing user or hybrid threads Shared state vs message passing (distributed state)Synchronization (coordination or communication by blocking or waiting)Synchronous System threads vs events System threads vs user-level threads (green, lightweight threads)

T

Thread Thread of execution and the blocking thread

A C G H I L M N O P S T

Terms total # 30

Sources

12-01 A glossary of terms used in concurrency.html
https://slikts.github.io/concurrency-glossary/

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