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Tara2 Posted 5 years ago
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Subject

Is 'subject' like 'topic'?


The interleaving representation of concurrency is subject to the idea that there is a scheduler which interlocks the steps of concurrently executing processes according to an a priori unknown strategy

  

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Tara2 Is 'subject' like 'topic'? No. com/dictionary/subject%20to

  • Tara2 Is 'subject' like 'topic'?
  • No.
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Tara2Is 'subject' like 'topic'?

No.

The phrasal verb "subject to" has nothing to do with "topic."

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subject%20to

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Tara2Is 'subject' like 'topic'?

No. This guy sounds like he swallowed a dictionary, but he should have read it instead. One thing is subject (adjective) to another if the first depends upon the action of the second. I might have written "The interleaving representation of concurrency presupposes a scheduler …."

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