Exercise 1 - Theory questions
Concepts
What is the difference between concurrency and parallelism?
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What is the difference between a race condition and a data race?
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Very roughly - what does a scheduler do, and how does it do it?
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Engineering
Why would we use multiple threads? What kinds of problems do threads solve?
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Some languages support “fibers” (sometimes called “green threads”) or “coroutines”? What are they, and why would we rather use them over threads?
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Does creating concurrent programs make the programmer’s life easier? Harder? Maybe both?
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What do you think is best - shared variables or message passing?
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