Understanding Concurrency: Concepts and Models for Programming

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This lecture provides a comprehensive introduction to concurrency, highlighting its definition, importance, and distinction from parallelism. It covers the fundamental concepts of processes and threads, examining their differences and resource management. Key scheduling mechanisms are explored to understand how operating systems manage concurrency through time slicing and context switching. The lecture also delves into synchronization primitives like mutex, semaphore, and condition variables,...