Chapter 5. Synchronizing Concurrency between Tasks
“The relation of these mechanisms to time demands careful study. ... We are scarcely ever interested in the performance of a communication-engineering machine for a single input. To function adequately, it must give a satisfactory performance for a whole class of inputs, and this means a statistically satisfactory performance for the class of input which it is statistically expected to receive . . .” | ||
| --Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics | ||
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With any computer system, resources are limited. There is only so much memory, I/O devices and ports, hardware interrupts, ...
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