Glossary
ABI Application binary interface.
ACK TCP acknowledgment.
adaptive mutex A mutex (mutual exclusion) synchronization lock type. See Chapter 5, Applications, Section 5.2.5, Concurrency and Parallelism.
address A memory location.
address space A virtual memory context. See Chapter 7, Memory.
AMD A processor vendor.
API Application programming interface.
application A program, typically user-level.
ARM A processor vendor.
ARP Address resolution protocol.
array A set of values. This is a data type for programming languages. Low-level languages typically store arrays in a contiguous range of memory, and value index refers to their offset.
ASIC Application-specific integrated circuit.
associative array A data type for programming languages ...
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