February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
16h 50m
English
Content preview from Advanced Python Programming
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Questions
- What is starvation, and why is it undesirable in a concurrent program?
- What are the underlying causes of starvation? What are the common high-level causes of starvation that can manifest from the underlying cause?
- What is the connection between deadlock and starvation?
- What is the readers-writers problem?
- What is the first approach to the readers-writers problem? Why does starvation arise in that situation?
- What is the second approach to the readers-writers problem? Why does starvation arise in that situation?
- What is the third approach to the readers-writers problem? Why does it successfully address starvation?
- What are some common solutions to starvation?