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Overview
Prevent shared-memory race conditions in IO-bound workloads using mutual exclusion thread locks.
Learning Objectives
- Identify and resolve race conditions in shared memory
- Synchronize parallel tasks using threading.Lock
Prerequisites
Item #10Summary Functions and Maps
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Completion Reward+200 XP
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