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race condition
noun
A flaw in a system or process whereby the output or result is unexpectedly and critically dependent on the sequence or timing of other events.
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Sun has released kernel patches for this race condition.
Bug fix in output-png when running in parallel (removing race condition).
However, the existing tools for such task are either too slow or hard to extend the race condition detection mechanism.
With the increase of complexity, the interaction among accelerators and processors could be deadfall if a race condition happens.
Such a conflict is called a race condition, and it is an example of a bug that only exists in the parallel world.
A more interesting example of a potential race condition is in a job queue, a data structure for distributing chunks of work of unpredictable sizes to different processors.
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class examples: threads.c, counters.c (demonstrating race conditions).
Under race conditions, she turned on her magic.
This new algorithm is believed to be robust against all race conditions.
Programmer needs to think about synchronisation, race conditions and shared variables.
Programmer needs to think about synchronization, race conditions and shared variables.
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