Uploaded February 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This video is on Race Conditions and Atomic Instructions. Race conditions is a general term for any circumstance in which multiple threads can attempt to modify the same shared resource at the same time. In x86 we can avoid them by using atomic instructions with the lock prefix.


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