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critical section

noun

critical section

noun
1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences A piece of code that accesses a shared resource that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution.

  • The instructions between a lock and an unlock form a critical section.2011, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Shaz Qadeer, Computer Aided Verification: 23rd International Conference:

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