Varptrådarna
Varptrådarna is a term that appears in Swedish-language discussions of concurrent programming and pointer manipulation. It denotes the concept of multiple threads that operate on shared data through pointers, with emphasis on how indirect access to memory requires careful synchronization to ensure correctness when several threads may read or write the same locations.
Origin and usage: The word is formed from varp (pointer) and tråd (thread). The definite plural form
Technical context: In examples, a varptråd may read from or write to a shared variable via a
Relation to languages and paradigms: The concept is most commonly discussed in the context of languages that
See also: memory ordering, data race, mutex, atomic operations, pointer safety.