Let’s give an example first before going deeper into what Mutex is: Think of a queue. Doesn’t matter short or long. Now think of a truck that is selling tickets for an amusement park. One person at a time can buy a ticket. When the person has bought the ticket, it is time for the…
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Semaphore can be used to limit the amount of concurrent threads and essentially, this class maintains a set of permits. acquire() takes a permit from the semaphore and release() returns the permit back to the semaphore. In the event of absence of permits, acuire() will block until one is available Semaphore is used to control…
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