Three Locks To Rule Them All

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To ensure thread-safety, especially on server side, we usually protect code with critical sections, or locks. In recent Delphi revisions, with have the TMonitor feature, but I would rather trust the OS for locks, which are implemented using Windows Critical Sections, or POSIX futex/mutex.




But all locks are not born equal. Most of the time, the overhead of a Critical Section WinAPI or the pt

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