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synchronization mechanism for enforcing limits on concurrent access to a resource

Connections

critical section

synchronization

non-blocking algorithm

linearizability

computer science

Microsoft Windows

International Standard Book Number

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Concurrency control Programming language comparisons Software design patterns

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parallel computing

Read-modify-write

resource acquisition is initialization

critical section

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producer-consumer problem

two-phase locking

blackboard pattern

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global variable

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entity component system

linearizability

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