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In the history of parallel computing, many synchronization primitives have been proposed, but only few have acquired a prominent position. A set of primitives that do have acquired such a position are C.A. R. Hoare’s so-called CSP-constructs [Hoa78, Hoa85]. (CSP is an acronym for “Communicating Sequential Processes”.) The constructs gracefully combine communication — i.e. information transfer — and synchronization. Below we describe them, briefly and informally.
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Feijen, W.H.J., van Gasteren, A.J.M. (1999). Mutual Inclusion and Synchronous Communication. In: On a Method of Multiprogramming. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3126-2_23
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