Critical Sections & Race Conditions
Explore the concepts of critical sections and race conditions in Ruby concurrency. Understand how threads interacting without synchronization can cause inconsistent data and learn why proper locking mechanisms are essential to prevent errors in multithreaded programs.
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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 shared data or resources used by the application for access.
Race Condition
Race ...