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bakery algorithm
computer science
Also known as: Lamport’s bakery algorithm
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- In Leslie Lamport
…which he called the “bakery algorithm,” involved assigning an integer to each process waiting to write to memory much the same way that a bakery patron obtains a number upon entering the store. Lamport worked to solve the problem of “Byzantine failures”—that is, conditions under which a malfunctioning component…
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