Communicating Sequential Processes
Explore the foundational concepts of Communicating Sequential Processes to understand how concurrent tasks communicate and synchronize without sharing memory directly. This lesson introduces the approach proposed by Tony Hoare that inspired Go's concurrency model, helping you grasp how channels simplify sync in practical applications.
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For a concurrent program, concurrent processes have to operate individually but with a shared data source. However, this leads to problems such as race conditions, which we will discuss in the next lesson. Hence, Tony Hoare came up with an effective solution in 1978, i.e. communication between concurrent processes. He put forth the idea of communication in concurrency in a paper titled Communicating Sequential ...