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Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII) is a common idiom in resource management. In the case of dynamic memory, it uses smart pointers to accomplish resource management. When using RAII, an acquired resource is immediately given ownership to a smart pointer or equivalent resource manager. The...

Problems may happen when multiple threads try to access a resource. For a simple example, suppose we have a thread that adds one to a variable. It does this by first reading the variable, adding one to it, then storing it back. Suppose we initialize this variable to 1, then create two instances of t...