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Explores the significance of concurrency in enhancing system performance and responsiveness, emphasizing the need for synchronization and atomicity to prevent race conditions and non-determinism.
Explores the concept of locking for mutual exclusion in OS, covering race conditions, parallelism, atomic instructions, deadlock prevention, and best practices.
Explores the significance of lock-free synchronization for achieving low latency in distributed systems and discusses practical solutions for unique identifier generation and messaging queues.
Covers the principles of synchronization in parallel computing, focusing on shared memory synchronization and different methods like locks and barriers.