Sequential execution

Category: Foundations · Status: stub

One line: Steps run one after another in a fixed order, each finishing before the next starts: a single total order of events, and the baseline every concurrent program is measured against.

Also called: serial execution, sequential programming.

How it connects

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• Often confused with: Concurrency

Where to read more

• In the books: Hands-On Concurrency with Rust, Brian L. Troutwine — ch. 2, 'Sequential Rust Performance and Testing'
• In the books: Grokking Concurrency, Kirill Bobrov — ch. 2, 'Serial and parallel execution'
• In the books: Multi-Threaded Programming in C++, Mark Walmsley — ch. 1, 'Introduction' → 'Single Threaded Programming'
• In the books: Java Concurrency in Practice, Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes, Doug Lea — ch. 9, 'GUI Applications' → 'Why are GUIs Single-threaded?'
• In the books: Python Concurrency with asyncio, Matthew Fowler — ch. 1, 'Getting to know asyncio' → 'How single-threaded concurrency works'
• In the books: Multithreaded JavaScript, Thomas Hunter II, Bryan English — ch. 1, 'Introduction' → 'Single-Threaded JavaScript'
• Notes: sequential programming - sequential functions - sequential platform ↗
• Notes: Sequential Steps ↗
• Reference: Dominik Tornow: Distributed Async Await (NDC talk) ↗