Non-blocking Synchronization

	Non-blocking Synchronization Non-blocking or nonblocking may refer to: ''non-blocking I/O'', see asynchronous I/O Non-blocking synchronization * Nonblocking minimal spanning switch {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Asynchronous I/O In computer science, asynchronous I/O (also non-sequential I/O) is a form of input/output processing that permits other processing to continue before the I/O operation has finished. A name used for asynchronous I/O in the Windows API is '' overlapped I/O''. Input and output (I/O) operations on a computer can be extremely slow compared to the processing of data. An I/O device can incorporate mechanical devices that must physically move, such as a hard drive seeking a track to read or write; this is often orders of magnitude slower than the switching of electric current. For example, during a disk operation that takes ten milliseconds to perform, a processor that is clocked at one gigahertz The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), often described as being equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second. The hertz is an SI derived unit whose formal expression in terms of SI base un ... could have performed ten million instruct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Non-blocking Synchronization Non-blocking or nonblocking may refer to: ''non-blocking I/O'', see asynchronous I/O Non-blocking synchronization * Nonblocking minimal spanning switch {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]