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Effective Concurrency in Go
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Effective Concurrency in Go

by Burak Serdar
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
212 pages
4h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Concurrency – A High-Level Overview

For many who don’t work with concurrent programs (and for some who do), concurrency means the same thing as parallelism. In colloquial speech, people don’t usually distinguish between the two. But there are some clear reasons why computer scientists and software engineers make a big deal out of differentiating concurrency and parallelism. This chapter is about what concurrency is (and what it is not) and some of the foundational concepts of concurrency.

Specifically, we’ll cover the following main topics in this chapter:

  • Concurrency and parallelism
  • Shared memory versus message passing
  • Atomicity, race, deadlocks, and starvation

By the end of this chapter, you will have a high-level understanding of concurrency ...

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