Non-determinism

• A process is deterministic when it always produces the same result when presented with the same data; otherwise a process is called

non-deterministic

j = 10

print j

j = 100

exit

• Evaluation proceeds non-deterministically in one of two ways, producing an output of 10 or 100

• Race conditions lead to non-determinism, and are generally undesirable

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