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Dekker’s algorithm is the first known algorithm that solves the mutual exclusion problem in concurrent programming. It is credited to Th. J. Dekker, a Dutch mathematician who created the algorithm for another context. Dekker's algorithm is used in process queuing, and allows two different threads to share the same single-use resource without conflict by using shared memory for communication.
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