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Strategized Locking

Explore the concept of strategized locking by applying the strategy pattern to concurrency control. Understand how to switch between different locking mechanisms at runtime or compile time to enhance safe concurrent programming in C++.

The idea behind the strategized locking is to change the locking strategy during run or compile time. Let’s assume we have a component used in a different environment. Sometimes we want to lock it, unlock it, or use a shared lock. How can this be done? Recall the strategy pattern definition:

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