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Mutex

A mutual-exclusion lock: at most one thread holds it at a time, and acquiring it establishes a happens-before edge with the previous release, making the guarded data's writes visible. Rust's Mutex<T> owns its data, so access is only possible through the lock guard.

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Why does the Rust design of placing the data inside the lock matter?

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Shared-State Concurrency with Mutex and Arc in Rust

Shared-state concurrency allows multiple threads to access the same data (rather than passing messages between threads), governed by a mutex (mutual exclusion), which permits only one thread at a tim…