Fundamentals of Concurrent Programming
Root Causes of Concurrency Issues
Visibility
Visibility refers to the ability of a thread to immediately observe changes made to shared variables by other threads. The fundamental problem stems from CPU cache architectures.
// Thread A executes
int counter = 0;
counter = 42;
// Thread B executes
int result = counter;
When Thread A executes c ...
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