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 ...
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Combination of Java's Future and Android's AsyncTask
My goal is create a class which implements Future interface of Java (get, cancel, isDone...), yet provides callback like ...
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Synchronize different tasks (I/O listening daemon, prompt scheduler, output etc)
Shortly, I need to create a Java application with client/server architecture (clients represent some sort of math functions and when they are done computing, server consumes these values and produces ...
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URLEncoder implementation
I'm looking for feedback on my URLEncoder implementation, which is a drop-in replacement for Apache Tomcat's URLEncoder. It was ...
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Adding to a message queue if more important messages come in
We need to send messages with highest priority first so we use a PriorityQueue for our purpose.
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Threadsafe filtering queue
I have implemented a thread safe filtering queue. The queue allows any objects, of the specified type to be added. A thread interested to take an object must specify which object it is interested in ...
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Simple Agent in F#
I wrote a simple agent system based on the agent type from Akka. It allows you to encapsulate a mutable state in a thread safe manner for use cases where mutation would be most convenient (like for ...
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Simple parallel_for_each in C++
I need to parallelise a for loop that does quite a lot of processing over thousands of items. I came up with this basic loop that seems to work quite effectively on ...
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Wikipath stack in Java - Part I/IV - The search algorithm
I am working on the following small software stack:
The objective of the entire stack is to search for shortest paths in the Wikipedia article graph as fast as possible. As of now, I rely on two ...
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A buffer that holds and provides the latest n items
I have developed the following code to hold n latest items it has received, and when asked for provide these n latest items.
The interface is:
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Receptive map queue
I've written a class I call ReceptiveMapQueue. Its purpose is to organize the internal structure of an AFKable RPG. It only has two public methods - dumping entries ...
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Ruby thread pool implementation
I'm in the process of adapting the simple thread pool described here to my application. I'm new to concurrency in Ruby, but here is what I have so far:
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Concurrent for loop in C++ - follow-up
I have incorporated all the cool points made by ChrisWue in the initial iteration of this post.
Now, I am not reinventing the wheel for my concurrent queue, but use internally ...
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Java controller to farm out concurrent tasks
I've recently given a coding interview on a Java concurrency task and unfortunately didn't get the job. The worst part is I've given my best but now I'm not even sure where went wrong. Can anyone ...
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Concurrent for loop in C++
(See the next iteration.)
I have this easy to use facility that maps input elements to output elements concurrently by the means of a thread pool:
concurrent.h:
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Implemenation for concurrent file access (read/write)
I am developing an application that works with files and folder on a network share (similar to the windows explorer). The application is used by multiple users and provides some commands for modifying ...
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Multithreaded Producer-Consumer pattern
I have Producer Threads A, B and C producing 3 different types of events Events A, B and C respectively. The Consumer thread can ...
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Managing PostgreSQL transactions for concurrency
I have a situation where I need to use PostgreSQL's serializable isolation level for transactions. This is for a table shared among multiple concurrent PHP processes. If the database runs into any ...
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Naive parallel Sieve of Eratosthenes in Java
My naive version now is too slow. I think setting/accessing concurrent atomic bit is way slower compared to access/modify an array of boolean. Second, the parallel execution only happens on the ...
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Golang: reading and writing files in parallel
I am trying to read a big file line by line, inspect and cleanse each row and write to either of two output files depending on the outcome. I am using channels for this. I am still quite new to this ...
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Concurrent non-blocking update of cached list of on-line users
I have following problem: My server (ASP.MVC WebAPI) is tracking, when client application ("Agent") is on-line. It's storing this inf on following table:
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Capture some state in Haskell
I want to capture some state in a Haskell function. For instance, I have many thread trying to print on the console and I want the to play nice with each other. So I want to have some XX to make the ...
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C++11 Blocking Queue learning exercise
As part of my own C++11 learning exercise I have implemented this Blocking Queue using the new C++11 thread API. One of the aspects I would like to improve is efficiency i.e. in the ...
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Methods to add and check elements in a Bloom Filter
I have a working Java implementation of Bloom Filter.
These are the methods to addElement and check for an element.
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Pseudo-parallel depth-first search
I'm writing a small program, that generates a file containing an adjancency matrix, it then reads from that file, constructs a graph and does something like a parallel dfs on it.
How can I make the ...
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Reader-writers problem using semaphores in Java
I have written my own solution to the Reader-Writers problems using semaphores based on the psuedocode from Wikipedia. I would like to gauge the correctness and quality of the code.
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Concurrent resizable ring buffer
I'm trying to find the fastest way to enqueue and dequeue items concurrently in Go.
There are some restrictions:
it needs to be unbounded
Memory allocation should be low
Multiple producers
(Single ...
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Reading and processing a big CSV file
I am trying to write a script to read a CSV file containing 1 million domain names, look up these domain names and store the results in another CSV file. I am trying the following code, but the number ...
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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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Multiple Persons enter room simultaneously and exits after specific interval of time
Here is the link to git repo of my application I am currently implementing just to have better understanding of OOP as well as learning Concurrency (Atleast a try :D)
What is the whole ...
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Go lang Tour Webcrawler Exercise - Solution
I am new in Go and for study I have to hold a presentation about concurrency in Go. I think the Go lang Tour - Webcrawler exercise is a nice example to talk about that. Before I will do that, it would ...
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Design of thread pool reuse with Executors.newFixedThreadPool in Java
In my application I have code which should run every hour on a new items and execute some expensive operation with multithreading:
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Thread safe REST API
My assignment was to develop a REST service that will provide Airport information. This service is assumed to be used by multiple users, therefore data consistency (thread safety) and responding fast ...
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A very basic semaphore in Java
Here is is a fixed code, taking in to account Spurious wakeup issue.Thanks to Costa for bringing that up.
ISemaphore:
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A scalable lock-free channel
Here's my lock-free channel impl lfchan,
I didn't want to copy/paste the code here since it is multiple files.
I'm trying to get an idea of what can be improved or if there are any bugs in it.
chan....
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Processing files retrieved through FTP in parallel
I am busy creating a file processor that needs to get some files from an Ftp client download the file and save the data into the database. I have a two part question.
How can i refactor the code to ...
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Initialization lock for singleton
I'd like someone to double-check my use of Atomic primitives, because multi-threading is hard.
What I don't want to do is locking the whole get method, or having too many pre-checks per get() call.
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Robustly send notifications from multiple processes
We have Notifications stored in a notifications table, which is worked on by multiple background workers. The notifications table has these relevant attributes:
id (primary key, unique)
send_at (...
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Can my cache be more thread safe?
I have been working on a cache that can handle multiple reads at the same time, but the write is blocking.
Is this code overkill by using both a ConcurrentHashMap ...
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Reporting the status of the actions of a group of SKSpriteNodes
Working on a little Sprite Kit game, I had the problem that I wanted a couple of things to wait until a group of sprite nodes had stopped their animation.
I decided to use a GCD dispatch group to ...
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Distributed (asynchronous) averaging
This code simulates a distributed averaging protocol. There is a network of nodes, and at the clicks of a Poisson process:
A random node wakes up
Transmits it's current average to all the nodes it ...
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Tree processing for series and parallel execution
I have a tree processing application where some of the nodes are "executed" in parallel and some in series. I managed to do this but I feel that the solution looks a bit "hacked up" and can be ...
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Executor Service with Blocking Queue
I did not find a single working implementation of using an Executor Service with a Blocking Queue. So , I have come with with a working sample. Thoughts?
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Frequency of words in all files of a directory using Future - Scala
I created a program to get frequency of word in all files in a directory using Future API
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Parallel Task Queue that runs in sequence
I'm in need of a solution that runs constantly incoming requests in a per-resource sequence, but parallel in general.
The use-case:
Many clients connect to a server and start issuing work. The work ...
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Purging elements from the map if it reaches a memory size limit
I have implemented a LRU cache using ConcurrentLinkedHashMap. In the same map, I am purging events if my map reaches a particular limit as shown below.
I have a ...
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Simple Java task scheduler
The task is pretty simple: implement a timer that executes tasks when the next event takes place. I created a task scheduler based on a priority queue.
A new thread is created for ...
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Refactoring a phantom server called Swayzee
I have made a tool that is pretty useful for me. I have made it open source on github. It is a server that listens for requests and returns an HTML static version of a single page app. It works with a ...
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Implementing a long-running entity lock
Requirement
I have an entity named ImportData which can be processed once in order to extract data from a file fed to the application.
I need to make sure that, ...
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Unfair semaphore in Java
I'm tutor for a university operating systems course, and part of my work is creating exercises for them. Those exercises are mostly about concurrency and synchronization issues. For the next exercise ...
