6 Scheduling Algorithms That Developers Must Know About
Level Up Your Developer Skills By Learning About Concurrency
What Is Scheduling?
The CPU is a scarce resource on modern computers.
When multiple programs (in the form of processes or multiple threads in a process) are run, they must share the processing resources on the CPU. This task of resource allocation is given to a Scheduler.
But, which process/thread gets to be executed first by the CPU, and which one should wait?
To solve this, different scheduling algorithms were developed.
Let’s discuss the 6 important ones in this article.
Note that I am using the term ‘Process’ in this article to refer to a computation task.
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