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Building a Lock

Explore how to construct efficient locks by leveraging hardware instructions and operating system support. Understand the components required to create low-cost mutual exclusion mechanisms essential for managing concurrency in programming.

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By now, you should have some understanding of how a lock works, from the perspective of a programmer. But how do you build a lock? What hardware support is needed? What OS support? It is this set of questions we address in the ...