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Concurrency

Programming Throwdown

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Sockets, I'm the Only One Who Writes to the Hard Drive

Message passing is a way of ensuring that different programs can't use the same resource at the same time. If two programmes are talking to the speaker, it would just be nonsense. You want mutexes in order to protect am a, maybe, like i said, the speaker. And if you have different threads using different objects, im you can end up causing the system to be slow and not realize it.

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