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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 and challenges of transactions, emphasizing ACID properties and the practical implications of using transactional memory for concurrency control.
Explores historical perspectives and mechanisms of transactional memory, emphasizing the importance and challenges of its implementation in modern computing systems.
