Alternate Approaches Such as Transactional Memory or OpenMP Are Useful

question 34

Multiple Choice

Alternate approaches such as transactional memory or OpenMP are useful, because

• A) some race condition problems that cannot be solved using synchronization mechanisms such as mutex locks and semaphores can be solved using these alternate approaches.
• B) these approaches scale much better than synchronization mechanisms such as mutex locks and semaphores as the number of threads increases.
• C) developers do not need to identify race conditions when using these approaches.
• D) All of the above.

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