Grokking Multithreading and Concurrency for Coding Interviews
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The Fork/Join Model

Know the Vocabulary

This lesson uses the terms below many times. Read them once now, and come back here when a later section needs one.

  • Task: One piece of work that a program wants done, such as counting the tickets sold.
  • Worker: A thread that does one part of a bigger task.
  • Main thread: The thread that starts when the program starts. In this lesson, it hands out the work and collects the results.
  • Split: To divide a task into parts that do not depend on each other.
  • Fork (verb): To start a worker for one part of the task

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