Practice Concurrent & Parallel Programming (2.3.2.4) - Differences Between Basic and Advanced Programming

Practice: Concurrent & Parallel Programming

Lesson 2.3.2.4Differences Between Basic and Advanced Programming

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Question 1.
Define the term 'Concurrency'.
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Think about how multiple tasks are interleaved.
Question 2.
What is a Thread?
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Consider how threads operate within a single application.
3Question 3.
What is the main purpose of concurrency?
- To run tasks simultaneously
- To manage multiple tasks
- To improve memory usage
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Think about multitasking.
4Question 4.
True or False: Parallelism can be achieved with multiple threads within a single process.
- True
- False
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Consider processors and threads.
Question 5.
Given a multithreaded application performing database transactions, discuss potential race conditions and propose a synchronization method to prevent them.
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Consider how access is shared among threads.
Question 6.
Design a simple multithreaded program that counts how many times a particular number appears in a large list. Explain how you would implement parallel processing.
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Think about how the workload can be split.

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