2.3.2.4 - Concurrent & Parallel Programming
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Practice Questions
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Define the term 'Concurrency'.
💡 Hint: Think about how multiple tasks are interleaved.
What is a Thread?
💡 Hint: Consider how threads operate within a single application.
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What is the main purpose of concurrency?
💡 Hint: Think about multitasking.
True or False: Parallelism can be achieved with multiple threads within a single process.
💡 Hint: Consider processors and threads.
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Given a multithreaded application performing database transactions, discuss potential race conditions and propose a synchronization method to prevent them.
💡 Hint: Consider how access is shared among threads.
Design a simple multithreaded program that counts how many times a particular number appears in a large list. Explain how you would implement parallel processing.
💡 Hint: Think about how the workload can be split.
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