Critical Section & Race Conditions
Explore the concepts of critical sections and race conditions in Python concurrency, understand how threads interact with shared data, and recognize the risks of unsynchronized access that cause inconsistent program behavior. This lesson helps you identify and address thread safety issues critical for senior engineering interviews.
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Critical Section & Race Conditions
A program is a set of instructions being executed and multiple threads of a program can be executing different sections of the program code. However, caution should be exercised when threads of the same process attempt to simultaneously execute the same portion of code.
Critical Section
Critical section is any piece of code that has the possibility of being executed concurrently by more than one thread of the application and exposes any ...