Re:Data Processing -- Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
by mgreenbe on Thursday July 02, 2009 @01:50PM
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Idempotency is a property of mathematical functions: f : X -> X is idempotent iff f(f(x)) = f(x) for all x in X. Absolute value is an example of an idempotent function.
Reentrancy is a property of computational functions: a function f is reentrant if two copies of f can run at the same time (in the same memory space, etc. -- the details vary) and both copies behave as if the other weren't running. This can exclude or restrict, e.g. static fields or global variables.
Reentrancy is a property of computational functions: a function f is reentrant if two copies of f can run at the same time (in the same memory space, etc. -- the details vary) and both copies behave as if the other weren't running. This can exclude or restrict, e.g. static fields or global variables.