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For questions about programming in such a way that a task can be divided among multiple threads/workers which work simultaneously ('in parallel') on the subtasks, leading to performance gains.
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Is an atomic action supposed to be deterministic?
There is no order guaranteed with multithreading, y = y + 1 may be run before or after x = y + 1, which would change the result.
Atomicity avoids any "intermediate" state in a variable. For example, …