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what is/are the thread synchronization protocol called which is the equivalent to ethernet's CSMA? there's no "carrier sensing", but instead "who won or mistakes were made" sensing. or is that just considered a form of spinlock? (you're not waiting for a lock, you perform your operation then see if it worked; though you could make the operation be "acquire lock" in which case it's a spinlock)


isn't that more like optimistic concurrency control?




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