Concurrent and Parallel Programming

4.

Concurrency Models and Patterns

4.1.

4.1.1.

Managing Worker Thread Pools

4.1.2.

4.1.3.

4.1.4.

Reducing Thread Creation Overhead

4.1.5.

Thread Pool Sizing

4.1.6.

Thread Pool Tuning

4.2.

The Actor Model

4.2.1.

Actors as Computation Primitives

4.2.2.

Actor Lifecycle

4.2.3.

Mailboxes for Asynchronous Message Passing

4.2.4.

State Isolation

4.2.5.

No Shared State Principle

4.2.6.

Actor Supervision

4.2.7.

Fault Tolerance in Actor Systems

4.3.

Communicating Sequential Processes

4.3.1.

Processes as Independent Entities

4.3.2.

Channels for Communication

4.3.3.

Synchronous Channels

4.3.4.

Asynchronous Channels

4.3.5.

Select Statement for Non-Deterministic Choice

4.3.6.

Deadlock Avoidance in CSP

4.4.

Software Transactional Memory

4.4.1.

Database Transaction Analogy

4.4.2.

Atomic Memory Transactions

4.4.3.

Conflict Detection

4.4.4.

Conflict Resolution

4.4.5.

Optimistic Concurrency Control

4.4.6.

STM Limitations

4.4.7.

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