Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

readers-writers problem

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.15 in modern English

Syllables: read-er-s-writ-er-s prob-lem
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

7

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a class of problems in which many concurrent threads of execution try to access the same shared resource at one time, with constraints on which threads may read from and write to the resource.

Inflected Forms

readers-writers problems (plural)

Questions

What does readers-writers problem mean?: Any of a class of problems in which many concurrent threads of execution try to access the same shared resource at one time, with constraints on which threads may read from and write to the resource.

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