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6 Scheduling Algorithms That Developers Must Know About

6 Scheduling Algorithms That Developers Must Know About

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Dr. Ashish Bamania
Dec 29, 2023
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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.

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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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