Concurrency Models Demystified

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Compares three concrete models by building a 135‑URL word frequency pipeline and measuring results Sequential uses blocking HTTP calls then a single thread map Multithreaded uses producer/consumer with a blocking queue guarded by mutexes and semaphores causing race fixes deadlocks and over synchronization Actor design uses three actors (fetcher word counter orchestrator) implemented with Akka and Erlang style messaging, trading overhead and complexity for isolation Asynchronous single thread uses nonblocking IO with async/await and Promise.all and measures faster for IO bound work but fails for CPU heavy tasks

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1. 0:00Concurrency challenges
2. 1:17What concurrency means
3. 3:05Shared memory sync
4. 6:56Producer-consumer pattern
5. 8:41Locks and sync problems
6. 10:07Actor model messaging
7. 13:40Actor implementation details
8. 14:41Message passing trade-offs
9. 15:24Async programming model
10. 16:26Async in Hack
11. 17:53Async trade-offs
12. 18:56Concurrency models summary
13. 19:39Choosing concurrency model
14. 20:22Concurrency complexity advice
15. 21:06Q&A

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