If you’re working on a concurrent or parallel programming project, you may have come across the terms mutex lock and semaphore. These are both synchronization mechanisms that can be used to protect shared resources and prevent race conditions. In this post, we’ll discuss the differences between mutex locks and semaphores and when you might use each one.
At a high level, both mutex locks and semaphores are used to control access to shared resources in a concurrent or parallel program.
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