Shared Memory in Multithreaded Node.js

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Covers using Node.js worker_threads together with SharedArrayBuffer and Atomics to build multithreaded, shared-memory Node.js programs. Explains concurrency concepts (critical sections, race conditions, deadlocks, livelocks), synchronization primitives (locks, semaphores, mutexes, monitors, counters) with code examples, practical use cases for worker_threads, and a short list of remaining issues in Node.js workers for potential contributors.

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1. 0:00Experimental threads in Node.js
2. 3:27Processes vs threads
3. 8:10Worker Threads API
4. 11:54Parallel programming basics
5. 15:49Synchronization primitives
6. 26:40Shared memory structures
7. 29:55High-level abstractions
8. 34:15Thread limitations
9. 37:50me2sing library
10. 41:25Multithreading complexity
11. 45:42Common thread tasks
12. 47:53Testing parallel code
13. 48:35Intensive computing
14. 50:00Node.js thread goals

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