Programming Algorithms in Lisp: Writing Efficient Programs with Examples in ANSI Common Lisp

© Vsevolod Domkin 2021

V. DomkinProgramming Algorithms in Lisphttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6428-7_15

15. Synchronization

Vsevolod Domkin¹  

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Kyiv, Ukraine

 

This is the final chapter of the book, in which we will discuss optimization of parallel computations: whether concurrently on a single machine in a shared-memory setting or in a distributed shared-nothing environment. This is a huge topic that spans synchronization itself, parallelization, concurrency, distributed computations, and the functional approach. And every senior software developer should be well versed in it.

Usually, synchronization is studied in the context of system or distributed ...