Lecture 7 - C++ Concurrency Intro

Question 1

What is concurrency?

Answer 1

a programming paradigm which is to deal with a lot of things at once

Question 2

What is parallelism?

Answer 2

making things faster, it just so happens a program can have parts running simultanously

Question 3

What is concurrency achieved with?

Answer 3

Threads

Question 4

What is a thread?

Answer 4

A chunk of a program, which is part of a process and shares its address space with other threads

Question 5

How do threads communicate?

Answer 5

Via shared memory space

Question 6

What does mutual execution avoid?

Answer 6

Having race conditions

Question 7

What is coordination?

Answer 7

How we compute, what threads, how to synchronise

Question 8

What is computation?

Answer 8

What we actually compute

Question 9

What is a Monitor?

Answer 9

a thread-safe class as every method is synchornised (common in Java)

Question 10

What are condition variabels?

Answer 10

These avoud busy waiting for a condition to be true, as essentially condition flags