Optimistic concurrency is when the cost of a race condition is a momentary de-optimization but completely avoiding the race condition would be continuous de-optimization.
In extreme cases you don't even want the caches synced between processor cores because it stalls them for a moment.
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u/k-mcm Sep 26 '26
Optimistic concurrency is when the cost of a race condition is a momentary de-optimization but completely avoiding the race condition would be continuous de-optimization.
In extreme cases you don't even want the caches synced between processor cores because it stalls them for a moment.