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What does concurrency mean?


Asked by Amy Arellano on Dec 01, 2021 FAQ



Concurrency is the ability of an algorithm or program to run more than one task at a time.
One may also ask,
Synonyms for concurrent. belonging to the same period of time as another. Synonyms. coetaneous. coeval. coexistent. contemporaneous. contemporary.
And, Definition of concurrent. 1 : operating or occurring at the same time. 2a : running parallel. b : convergent specifically : meeting or intersecting in a point.
In respect to this,
Concurrent ML is a concurrent extension of the Standard ML programming language characterized by its ability to allow programmers to create composable communication abstractions that are first class rather than built into the language. The design of CML and its primitive operations have been adopted in several other programming languages such as GNU Guile, Racket, and Manticore.
In fact,
Pessimistic Concurrency is a ‘seatbelt in your car’ approach – we assume that concurrency conflicts will happen and we believe they will happen often. It locks database’s record for update access and other users can only access the record as read-only or have to wait for a record to be ‘unlocked’.