Concurrency Overview

This lecture emphasizes the importance of concurrency in improving system performance and responsiveness, showcasing its applications in various domains like web browsers, server workloads, and machine learning. It explains the need for synchronization among threads to exchange information and prevent non-determinism, which can lead to race conditions. The concept of atomicity through synchronized blocks is highlighted, along with strategies to enhance concurrency while avoiding race conditions and deadlocks by acquiring resources at a finer granularity and maintaining a specific order of locks.