concurrency-safe

adjective

UK /kənˈkʌrənsi seɪf/

US /kənˈkɜːrənsi seɪf/

Able to be used by many things at the same time without breaking.

The library provides concurrency-safe data structures for multithreaded programs.

SYNONYMS

thread-safe thread-safe by design race-free synchronized safe for parallel use

RELATED WORDS

concurrency mutex atomic locking parallelism

OTHER MEANINGS

2. Designed so that simultaneous operations do not corrupt shared data.

This queue is concurrency-safe, so multiple workers can push and pop at once.

3. Guaranteeing correct behavior when accessed by multiple threads or processes.

We refactored the cache into a concurrency-safe version before scaling out.

4. Free from data races and unsafe interleavings under concurrent access.

The API documents which methods are concurrency-safe and which require external locking.