Questions tagged [concurrency]
In computer science, concurrency is a property of systems in which multiple computations can be performed in overlapping time periods. The computations may be executing on multiple cores in the same chip, preemptively time-shared threads on the same processor, or executed on physically separated processors.
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Client <> Query <> Subquery Bookkeeping
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I am making a system, where different clients issue queries
A query is resolved by issuing a set of subqueries
I have an invalidation-worker, which gets notified when subqueries go stale
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Correct synchronization of reads and writes to ConcurrentHashMap and ConcurrentLinkedQueue
I am writing a web application (Servlets, JDBC, no Spring - for learning purposes) that accepts orders from customers, while registered couriers can choose which one of these orders they want to ...
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Golang Tour Web Crawler Exercise
In the last few days I've played around with Go a little and took the language tour. The last exercise (text here) requires you to crawl a graph that simulates a set of Web pages with links, using ...
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Lock-free implementation of getAndUpdate() using atomic CAS (Compare-And-Swap) operation
We have the following class written in Kotlin Native with the new Memory Manager (which doesn't require to freeze objects):
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Sender/Receiver threads using std::unique_lock and std::condition_variable
The code below is a sender/receiver setup in C++ where the sender is in one thread, the receiver is in another, and the data being sent/received is "shared" (global). The code uses the ...
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Concurrently write results to SQLite database
The goal is to run a function compute in parallel on many inputs (10**6 in total, say) and store the results.
Each call to ...
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Simple, fool-proof pattern to execute tasks in parallel
Assume I have a type task_info that stores the task-specific data needed to execute the task. A std::vector of those is built ...
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atomic spinlock mutex class
This here is the follow-up to this question. I was recommended to implement a Lockable type (similar to std::mutex) that can work with ...
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A mutex that can detect certain types of programming error
This mutex prevents concurrent access to a target resource. One key requirement is the ability to be acquired
in a (scheduler) thread and released in a different (worker) thread. Unfortunately this ...
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synchronized access to HttpSession attribute vs static ConcurrentMap with HttpSessionListener
As a part of library implementing websocket Guice scopes I need to maintain an object related to each HttpSession called ...
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Single Producer Single Consumer lockless ring buffer implementation
I am writing a simple ring buffer for my own education. Below is a crack at a strategy described in http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~pclee/www/pubs/ancs09poster.pdf : Producer and Consumer keep local ...
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Order guaranteed recursive_transform template function implementation with execution policy in C++
This is a follow-up question for A recursive_transform Template Function with Execution Policy, A recursive_transform Template Function Implementation with std::invocable Concept and Execution Policy ...
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Golang function that reads S3 files and populates maps with strings as keys
I have a below read function which is called by multiple go routines to read s3 files and it populates two concurrent map as ...
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C++20 simple RwSeqLock
I recently discovered the atomic wait/notify mechanism in C++20 and wrote this readers-writer lock in the style of Linux kernel Seqlock. Writes have to be inside a lock/unlock, while reads are ...
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Convert FLAC files to MP3 in parallel on Ubuntu
I created a script to convert my FLAC music collection to MP3. I did this so that I can play the MP3 files in my car, as the integrated head unit only supports MP3 and WMA files. The script works on ...
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A producer (mapper) and consumer (reducer) problem with concurrency in go with race conditions
Link to go playground https://go.dev/play/p/ctQDpDW6pui
This code has been based on suggestions and conversations in this thread here
Architecture:
A read method creates a channel shared with ...
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Delayed, concurrent event stack in Java
(See the next iteration:
Delayed, concurrent event stack in Java - follow-up )
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I was confronted with a task of having "message events" for a GUI program. The use case is as ...
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Delayed, concurrent event stack in Java - follow-up
I have slightly refactored the Delayed, concurrent event stack in Java. Now it looks like this:
DelayedEventStack.java
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Distributed lock service implementation in Golang
I have multiple E2E tests (written in Java) which share login details, each test during runtime will query the locker API for login details which is running on its own dedicated server.
Below is my ...
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Thread Pool Class
I have a thread_pool class, that mimics std::thread. (I would have liked std to have a pool, but alas that is not the case.)
thread_pool.h
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Thread Safe Queue
I have a thread safe queue in my library c9y. It is generally used as a task queue in the task_pool class, but in can be used for any producer / consumer problem.
queue.h
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Debounce and throttle tasks using Swift Concurrency
There are many debouncer and throttle implementations created using Grand Central Dispatch, and even one built into Combine. I ...
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Golang HTTPS certificate expiry checking CLI tool (UPDATED)
I previously submitted this CLI tool to this site for review and have made changes based on comments by the reviewer. I have refactored the code, fixed a bug (the tool will no longer output ...
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Golang HTTPS certificate expiry checking CLI tool
I am a beginner at using Golang, I would like advice about the following program. It is a CLI tool that can check the expiration dates of HTTPS certificates concurrently. I have only used the standard ...
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Concurrent dependant routines in a gui application [closed]
The idea is that, in my application I have 5 routines named long_process_1, long_process_2, ...
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Bulk recompiling edits to files by running external processes with a pool of 4 workers using asyncio
I am bulk recompiling edits to a c-like language which uses an external compiler.exe. The compiler takes the file paths as arguments and does the processing, nothing needs to be synchronized simply ...
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Approximate concurrent counter in Rust
I am reading chapter 29 of OS: the three easy pieces, which is about concurrent data structures. The first example these is an approximate counter. This data structure increments numbers by using a ...
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Obtaining intermediate results from a continuously running background thread in Java/JavaFX
This is a question about Java/JavaFX concurrency. Specifically, how can the UI request intermediate data from a thread running in an infinite loop.
I have a simulation program in Java and JavaFX. The ...
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Matrix multiplication with OpenMP parallel for loop
I tried implementing matrix multiplication with parallel for loop in OpenMP as follows. It runs correctly but I want to make sure if I'm missing anything. How does this determine the number of threads ...
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Threadsafe LRU Cache
Trying to design a threadsafe lru cache using a reentrant lock.
Currently I don't like the tryLock in a loop approach.
Any inputs on making it more optimal in terms of concurrency?
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Load data from database, change it asynchronously and return the new data
I have written this function to load data from the database, change it asynchronously and return the new data. It appears to work fine, but since I am new to Kotlin, I wanted to ask if this code is ok ...
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Launching two goroutines in parallel and returning result of the first finished
Real case: I need to retrieve data from a web service (main process), but in case that web service is taking too long, I retrieve the data from the cache (that data might be older) in a parallel ...
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Task executor thread pool
Despite my experience with Java, I am not well-versed with concurrency. I wrote this thread pool that has a queue of tasks. Please ignore any signature choices, such as overuse of ...
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Golang implementation of dining philosophers variant
I would like to implement a variant of the classical dining philosophers problem which has the definition as:
Implement the dining philosopher’s problem with the following constraints/modifications.
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Concurrent observable collection
I'm working on a WPF 4.5 desktop application that has several nested collections with the following key aspects:
writes mainly from UI thread, but also from worker threads
writes are relatively ...
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Set up pub/sub service as part of web app in Go
I have a web application that I'm writing in Go, using the Iris package. This app needs to listen to Azure Service Bus for messages, and take action when they come in. This is my first time writing ...
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Java use of CompletableFuture with supply async
Can someone review whether this code I have written makes sense? playing around with completableFutures
i have a DAO implementation which should return a ...
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Go efficiently retrieve and process large volume of AWS s3 objects
Like the title says, code below tries to efficiently grab and handle a large number (1m+) of objects from an aws s3 bucket. Right now on a 10gb lambda function it can handle ~2m objects in ~10s
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Converting future.get() to CompletionStage.whenComplete()?
I currently have some code in Java which looks something like this, but I want to refactor this.
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Framewise Full-Reference Image Quality Assessment (PSNR and SSIM) for Two Videos in Matlab
Besides the case of No Reference Image Quality Assessment for Video. I am attempting to implement a code snippet for calculating framewise Full-Reference Image Quality Assessment (FR-IQA) (PSNR and ...
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Tool to calculate the average time that takes for a GitHub pull request to get merged
I'm learning Go, and this is my first attempt at a command-line tool that uses the GitHub API to calculate the average time that takes for a pull request to get merged for a particular organisation or ...
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SHA256 password cracker - v2 with concurrency
I have updated my previous code with the suggestions. I have also implemented concurrency to speed up the results.
I'd be interested for comments on a more efficient use on concurrency / parallel ...
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C++20 Multi-queue Thread Pool with Work Stealing
This is a follow up to my previous post which also follows up on my first post regarding my thread pool implementation. I have since made some further changes and attempted to improve performance with ...
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What’s the correct usage of volatile keyword in this Concurrent dictionary implementation?
Can I get some guidance around the usage of volatile keyword and design of the existing concurrent dictionary implementation, please.
Here are a few design ...
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Lock-free, thread-safe trie container
This is a Trie data structure for mapping strings to integers or pointers in O(n) time. Based on the idea that we never delete anything from the container, we can perform concurrent read/write ...
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Read bunch of files in parallel and populate concurrent map
I am trying to read bunch of S3 parquet files in parallel from a S3 bucket. After reading all these files, I am populating my products and ...
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C++20 Single Queue Thread Pool
This is a follow up to my previous post. I've made a number of improvements to the thread pool and corrected some bugs as well.
The most up to date version of the code is available on my Github.
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DelayQueue in Go
I tried to use Go to write a DelayQueue. I referred to the implementation in Java. So the general logic is to have a minimum heap, then try to fetch the top element ...
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Bank account concurrency problem Swift
I tried to implement a simple BankAccount class to practice providing a solution to the common Bank Account transaction data race problem. Reference to a description of such a problem can be found ...
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C++14 Lock-free Multi-producer, Multi-Consumer Queue
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This is a follow-up to a previous question of mine, where I presented another queue of the same type to get some feedback on it. Some people pointed out some fundamental errors I had ...
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