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  2. Busy waiting - Wikipedia

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    Busy-waiting itself can be made much less wasteful by using a delay function (e.g., sleep()) found in most operating systems. This puts a thread to sleep for a specified time, during which the thread will waste no CPU time. If the loop is checking something simple then it will spend most of its time asleep and will waste very little CPU time.

  3. Sleep (system call) - Wikipedia

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    A computer program (process, task, or thread) may sleep, which places it into an inactive state for a period of time. Eventually the expiration of an interval timer , or the receipt of a signal or interrupt causes the program to resume execution.

  4. Spinlock - Wikipedia

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    The result is an indefinite postponement until the thread holding the lock can finish and release it. This is especially true on a single-processor system, where each waiting thread of the same priority is likely to waste its quantum (allocated time where a thread can run) spinning until the thread that holds the lock is finally finished.

  5. Thread pool - Wikipedia

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    In computer programming, a thread pool is a software design pattern for achieving concurrency of execution in a computer program. Often also called a replicated workers or worker-crew model , [ 1 ] a thread pool maintains multiple threads waiting for tasks to be allocated for concurrent execution by the supervising program.

  6. Thread (computing) - Wikipedia

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    A process with two threads of execution, running on one processor Program vs. Process vs. Thread Scheduling, Preemption, Context Switching. In computer science, a thread of execution is the smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a scheduler, which is typically a part of the operating system. [1]

  7. Monitor (synchronization) - Wikipedia

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    enter the monitor: enter the method if the monitor is locked add this thread to e block this thread else lock the monitor leave the monitor: schedule return from the method wait c: add this thread to c.q schedule block this thread notify c: if there is a thread waiting on c.q select and remove one thread t from c.q (t is called "the notified ...

  8. Yield (multithreading) - Wikipedia

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    std::this_thread::yield() in the language C++, introduced in C++11. The Yield method is provided in various object-oriented programming languages with multithreading support, such as C# and Java. [2] OOP languages generally provide class abstractions for thread objects. yield in Kotlin

  9. Sleeping barber problem - Wikipedia

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    There are several possible solutions, but all solutions require a mutex, which ensures that only one of the participants can change state at once.The barber must acquire the room status mutex before checking for customers and release it when they begin either to sleep or cut hair; a customer must acquire it before entering the shop and release it once they are sitting in a waiting room or ...