4.7 - Concurrent and Parallel Programming Paradigm
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Practice Questions
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What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?
💡 Hint: Think about whether tasks are done at the same time or just managed at the same time.
Name one advantage of concurrent programming.
💡 Hint: Consider how tasks interact.
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What is the primary difference between concurrency and parallelism?
💡 Hint: Think about whether tasks can overlap or must be done at the same time.
True or False: Multithreading can help improve program performance.
💡 Hint: Consider how servers handle multiple requests.
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Design a simple thread-safe program in Python that increments a shared variable from multiple threads without race conditions. Explain your code.
💡 Hint: Think about how to restrict access while avoiding deadlocks.
Imagine a scenario where you need to fetch data from a database and process it. Propose how you'd leverage both asynchrony and multithreading in your implementation.
💡 Hint: Factor in the nature of I/O operations versus computational tasks.
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