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wait-free synchronization: a standalone construct

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a progress guarantee that every process finishes its operation in a bounded number of its own steps regardless of other processes' speed or failure.

In distributed systems, wait-free synchronization refers to a progress guarantee that every process finishes its operation in a bounded number of its own steps regardless of other processes' speed or failure. This meaning comes from Herlihy (1991) in ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems.[1]

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References

Herlihy, M. (1991). Wait-free synchronization. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 13(1), 124-149. https://doi.org/10.1145/114005.102808

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