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busy waiting

computer programming technique in which a process repeatedly checks to see if a condition is true
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busy waiting

Summary

busy waiting is a concurrency pattern[1]. It draws 48 Wikipedia views per month (concurrency_pattern category, ranking #8 of 10).[2]

Key Facts

  • busy waiting's instance of is recorded as concurrency pattern[3].
  • busy waiting's instance of is recorded as programming anti-pattern[4].
  • busy waiting's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/031lgl[5].
  • busy waiting's topic's main category is recorded as Q9523094[6].
  • busy waiting's facet of is recorded as software development[7].
  • busy waiting's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 131584672[8].
  • busy waiting's C64-Wiki ID is recorded as Busy-Wait-Schleife[9].

Why It Matters

busy waiting draws 48 Wikipedia views per month (concurrency_pattern category, ranking #8 of 10).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

software development

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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