Multi-threading related questions including technique, structure, and safety issues.
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Best Creational Pattern for loggers in a multi-threaded system?
This is a follow up question on my past questions :
Concurrency pattern of logger in multithreaded application
As suggested by others, I am putting this question separately.
As the learning from ...
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why client can not receive message from server (java) [migrated]
I have just started learning java. I modified the client side code for a server/client communication program, by creating two threads for the client side, main thread for receiving user's input, and ...
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Concurrency pattern of logger in multithreaded application
The context:
We are working on a multi-threaded (Linux-C) application that follows a pipeline model.
Each module has a private thread and encapsulated objects which do processing of data; and each ...
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Multithreading synchronization interview question: Find n words given m threads
I came across this question:
You are given a paragraph , which contain n number of words, you are
given m threads. What you need to do is , each thread should print one
word and give the ...
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Naming Convention for Dedicated Thread Locking objects
A relatively minor question, but I haven't been able to find official documentation or even blog opinion/discussions on it.
Simply put: when I have a private object whose sole purpose is to serve for ...
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Internal Mutation of Persistent Data Structures
To clarify, when I mean use the terms persistent and immutable on a data structure, I mean that:
The state of the data structure remains unchanged for its lifetime. It always holds the same data, ...
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What is the best way to diagrammatically represent a system threading architecture?
I am yet to find the perfect way to diagrammatically represent the overall threading architecture for a system (using UML or otherwise).
I am after a diagramming technique that would show all the ...
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Thread safe GUI programming
I have been programming Java with swing for a couple of years now, and always accepted that GUI interactions had to happen on the Event Dispatch Thread. I recently started to use GTK+ for C ...
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.NET mulithreading and quad core processors
I have a single threaded application that runs on a machine with a quad core processor. The scheduled tasks that run VB.NET forms are too slow.
I am new to multi threading and parallel computing. ...
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Confusion related to sigwait in multiprocess system
I am having difficulty in understanding IPC in multiprocess system. I have this system where there are three child processes that send two types of signals to their process group. There are four types ...
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Is the singleton pattern prone to thread safety problems?
Is the singleton pattern prone to thread safety problems? If so, what are the best methods to work around them?
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When creating a library for a simple program, what must I do to protect others from its lack of thread safety?
When creating a library for a simple program, is it more cost effective to make it thread safe or is there a way to detect the program's use in a multithreaded program and ASSERT() or otherwise ...
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Reading and conditionally updating N rows, where N > 100,000 for DNA Sequence processing
I have a proof of concept application that uses Azure tables to associate DNA sequences to "something".
Table 1 is the master table. It uniquely lists every DNA sequence. The PK is a load balanced ...
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Parallel Threading in Multi-Language Software?
I'm developing a software that contain many modules/Daemon running in parallel manner, what i'm looking for is how to implement that, i cannot use Thread because some of those modules/Daemon are ...
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What is a zombie process or thread?
What is a zombie process or thread, and what creates them? Do I just kill them, or can I do something to get diagnostics about how they died?
