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ComputingComputer EngineeringComputer ScienceDistributed SystemsMemoryParallel ComputingCache CoherenceData SynchronizationShared-memory MultiprocessingShared-memory ParallelismSynchronization PrimitivesMultiprocessor SynchronizationReader-writer LocksReader-writer SynchronizationScalable Shared MemoryScalable SynchronizationShared MemoryShared Memory MultiprocessorsShared-memory Architecture
Reader-writer synchronization relaxes the constraints of mutual exclusion to permit more than one process to inspect a shared object concurrently, as long as none of them changes its value.
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