[2021] Swansea - CS210 Concurrency - Final Exam - Q1 Atomic Operation
1. Please provide the term used to describe the following concepts:
(a) How do you refer to a statement (or a set of statements) that is executed all at once (physically or logically)? [2 marks]
(b) s is a counting variable that can take only positive integer values. Once s has been given an initial value, it cannot exceed that value. The only allowed operations are up(s) for incrementing s and down(s) for decrementing s. Also, we cannot decrement it below 0. In the context of concurrency, which concept is being captured by s here? [2 marks]
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