livelock
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A state resembling deadlock in which various computational processes are constantly changing but never reach a point where any of them can proceed.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "However, this can lead to livelock—the optimistic analog of indefinite blocking in which methods continuously spin without making any further progress."
- "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."
- "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."