C++ Standard Template Library in Practice - Shared Locks

The video tutorial explains the use of locks and mutexes for thread synchronization and data integrity, highlighting the trade-off with performance. It introduces shared mutexes, which allow multiple threads to read simultaneously while ensuring exclusive access for writing. The tutorial demonstrates implementing shared mutexes in a data source struct and creating worker threads for reading and writing. It concludes with an analysis of program execution and the importance of locks in maintaining thread safety.

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