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senderista • yesterday at 4:55 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

A race condition is an application invariant violation under concurrency, so it has no application-independent definition. A data race is unsynchronized access by two concurrent threads to the same memory location where at least one access is a write. Ergo, the definition of a data race has nothing to do with application logic.

I think this should make the distinction between data races and race conditions pretty clear.


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phplovesong • yesterday at 6:01 PM

A data race is by definition a class of an race condition. This is basic compsci literature, and there is no other way to put it, as even a non programmer can see the similarity.

Not sure why you would be that nitpicky for something so trivial?

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