livelock
verbEtymology From live + lock; punning antonym for deadlock, c. 1971.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To enter a state of livelock.
livelock
nounEtymology From live + lock; punning antonym for deadlock, c. 1971.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A state resembling deadlock in which various computational processes are constantly changing but never reach a point where any of them can proceed.
- However, this can lead to livelock—the optimistic analog of indefinite blocking in which methods continuously spin without making any further progress.2000, Douglas Lea, Concurrent Programming in Java, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 193:
- A process is considered to be in a state of livelock when thread code is still executing, but two or more threads are in a never-ending cycle with each other and no useful work is being done.2003, Mark Pearce, Comprehensive VB .NET Debugging, →ISBN, page 439:
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- Adding queuing prematurely can hide synchronization issues such as deadlocks and livelocks, and further, as your program converges toward correctness, you may find that you need more or less queuing.2017, Katherine Cox-Buday, Concurrency in Go […] , O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 124: