Double-checked locking
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Double-checked locking
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In software engineering, double-checked locking is a software design pattern used to reduce the overhead of acquiring a lock by testing the locking criterion before acquiring the lock. Locking occurs only if the locking criterion check indicates that locking is required. The original form of the pattern, appearing in Pattern Languages of Program Design 3, has data races, depending on the memory model in use, and it is hard to get right. Some consider it to be an anti-pattern. There are valid for
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2023-10-30T01:29:49Z
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