The text has stated repeatedly that no assumptions should be made about the relative speeds of asynchronous concurrent threads. Why?
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This is a crucial point. Students who look at two threads that perform similar or even identical operations expect the threads to execute at about the same relative speeds. But there literally is chaos in the computing system with perhaps dozens of threads competing for the processors and devices, with a “blizzard” of interrupts being directed at the processors (and thus disrupting the flow of threads), with devices malfunctioning, with interactive users taking different amounts of time to respond to system prompts and so on. Trivially, a perfectly respectable and well-behaved thread could repeatedly be interrupted almost every time it starts to run as I/O completions come in from other threads. Thus, concurrent pro- grams should be designed to operate correctly without building in any dependencies on the relative speeds of asynchronous concurrent threads.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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