Synchronization (computer science)
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In computer science, especially parallel computing, synchronization means the coordination of simultaneous threads or processes to complete a task in order to get correct runtime order and avoid unexpected race conditions.
There are many types of synchronization:
- barrier
- lock/semaphore
- non-blocking synchronization
- synchronous communication operations
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