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Liverock vs Livelock - What's the difference?

liverock | livelock |

As nouns the difference between liverock and livelock

is that liverock is (aquarium) a rocky material made of calcium carbonate or other calcareous materials, usually derived from the skeletons of dead coral it is home to various marine animals, algae and bacteria and is used as an important part of the aquascaping and biological filtration in marine aquaria while livelock is (computing) a condition resembling deadlock in which various computational processes are constantly changing but never reach a point where any of them can proceed.

liverock

English

Noun

(wikipedia liverock)
  • (aquarium) A rocky material made of calcium carbonate or other calcareous materials, usually derived from the skeletons of dead coral. It is home to various marine animals, algae and bacteria and is used as an important part of the aquascaping and biological filtration in marine aquaria.
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    livelock

    English

    Noun

  • (computing) A condition resembling deadlock in which various computational processes are constantly changing but never reach a point where any of them can proceed.
  • * 2003 , Mark Pearce, Comprehensive VB .NET Debugging , ISBN 9781590590508, p. 439 (Google preview):
    • A process is considered to be in a state of livelock when thread code is still executing, but two or more threads are in a never-ending cycle with each other and no useful work is being done.

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