Practice Why Thread Safety Is Hard? (23.2.2) - Java Memory Model and Thread Safety

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Question 1.
What is a race condition?
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Think about multiple threads trying to access a shared resource.
Question 2.
What does atomicity mean?
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Remember the bank example where an operation completes as one step.
3Question 3.
What is a race condition?
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Recall examples of shared resources.
4Question 4.
True or False: Atomic operations are those that can be interrupted.
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Consider what atomic means in programming.
Question 5.
Design a multithreaded application where two threads increment a shared counter. Identify possible race conditions and propose solutions.
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Consider the implications of concurrent access.
Question 6.
What steps would you take to ensure memory consistency in a scenario with multiple threads accessing shared data?
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Focus on the visibility of changes between threads.

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