Trade-offs
- Convenience
- Correctness
It is one of the methods of dealing with deadlocks. Other methods are: avoidance (banker's algorithm), prevention, detection and recovery.
Some algorithms with poor worst-case performance are commonly used because they only exhibit poor performance on artificial cases that do not occur in practice; typical examples are the simplex algorithm and the type-checking algorithm for Standard ML. Issues like integer overflow in programming languages with fixed-width integers are also frequently ignored because they occur only in exceptional cases that don't arise for practical inputs.
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