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Day: January 30, 2017

Posted on 30 January 201714 December 2021

The Problem with Threads

Threads are a fact of life for the modern programmer. They can be found eveywhere, even on embedded systems. However, threads destroy determinism and make it much harder to reliably predict how your program will behave. We are familiar with the types of problems that arise from using threads: mutal exclusion, deadlocks, priority inversion, and …

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