In Computer Science
In computer science, the issue of handling shared resources figures prominently. For example time-sharing is an approach to interactive computing in which a single computer is used to provide apparently simultaneous interactive general-purpose computing to multiple users by sharing processor time. Sharing of resources between processes and threads is the source of most of the difficulties of concurrent programming. The word "sharing" is also used in some functional programming communities to refer specifically to sharing of memory between different data items to save space, otherwise known as hash consing.
See also: Aliasing (computing), Concurrency control, and File lockingRead more about this topic: Sharing
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