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What is concurrency in programming and how does it differ from parallelism?
Answer:
Concurrency Fundamentals
- 2.
Can you explain race conditions and provide an example where one might occur?
Answer: - 3.
What is a critical section in the context of concurrent programming?
Answer: - 4.
How does an operating system ensure mutual exclusion in concurrent processes?
Answer: - 5.
Can you describe the concept of atomicity in relation to concurrency?
Answer: - 6.
How does a deadlock occur and what are common strategies to prevent it?
Answer: - 7.
What is a livelock and how is it different from a deadlock?
Answer: - 8.
Can you explain the producer-consumer problem and how can it be addressed using concurrency mechanisms?
Answer:
Thread Management
- 9.
What is the difference between a process and a thread?
Answer: - 10.
How are threads typically created and managed in modern operating systems?
Answer: - 11.
What is a thread pool and why might you use one?
Answer: - 12.
Can you explain the concept of a context switch and how it affects concurrency?
Answer: - 13.
What are the benefits and disadvantages of using many small threads vs. a few large threads?
Answer:
Synchronization Mechanisms
- 14.
What is a mutex and how does it work?
Answer: - 15.
What are semaphores and how do they differ from mutexes?
Answer: - 16.
Can you explain what a monitor is in the context of concurrency?
Answer: - 17.
How do condition variables contribute to thread synchronization?
Answer: - 18.
What is a read-write lock and when is it advantageous to use one?
Answer:
Concurrency Patterns
- 19.
Can you describe the fork/join parallelism pattern and its use cases?
Answer: - 20.
What is a barrier and how is it used in concurrent programming?
Answer: - 21.
Describe an instance where a message queue might be used in a concurrent system.
Answer: - 22.
How might event-driven programming help in handling concurrency?
Answer: - 23.
Can you illustrate usage of the publish-subscribe pattern in a concurrent system?
Answer:
Concurrency in Practice
- 24.
How does one typically handle exceptions in a concurrently executing thread?
Answer: - 25.
What is the advantage of using non-blocking algorithms in a multi-threaded application?
Answer: - 26.
Can you describe a scenario where you would use atomic operations?
Answer: - 27.
How would you go about debugging a concurrency issue like a deadlock in a system?
Answer: - 28.
What measures would you take to ensure thread-safety in a method that mutates shared data?
Answer:
Performance and Scalability
- 29.
How can the use of concurrency affect the scalability of an application?
Answer: - 30.
What approaches can be taken to balance load effectively between threads?
Answer: - 31.
Can you discuss strategies to reduce contention for shared resources in a concurrent program?
Answer: - 32.
How does the concept of concurrency relate to application throughput and latency?
Answer:
Advanced Topics
- 33.
What is software transactional memory (STM) and how can it be used to manage concurrency?
Answer: - 34.
Explain the role of lock-free and wait-free algorithms in concurrent programming.
Answer: - 35.
How does the actor model address concurrency, and what are its benefits?
Answer: - 36.
What are some challenges in testing concurrent applications, and how can they be mitigated?
Answer:
Hardware and Concurrency
- 37.
How does the hardware architecture of a CPU relate to the way concurrency is implemented in software?
Answer: - 38.
Can you explain the role of cache coherency in multi-processor or multi-core systems in the context of concurrency?
Answer: - 39.
What are the potential impacts of hardware-level parallelism on software concurrency models?
Answer:
Modern Trends and Best Practices
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In the context of modern multi-core processors, how have high-level concurrency abstractions evolved to simplify concurrent programming?
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