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Lock / Mutex to a software engineer
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This is a submission for DEV Computer Science Challenge v24.06.12: One Byte Explainer.
Explainer
A mutex blocks access to a critical section until the current thread is done, preventing race conditions but potentially causing performance hits. The GIL in CPython restricts access to shared resources to one thread at a time, impacting multi-threading.
Additional Context
I am planning to post 5 submissions explaining "Lock/Mutex" at 5 levels of difficulty. This is Difficulty 3.
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