Sync Primitives

RwLock (Reader Writer Lock)

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• An RwLock is basically a RefCell whose counters are kept using atomics
• the read (borrow equivalent for RefCell) and write (borrow_mut equivalent of Refcell) always return the ref/refmut instead of an option so that we dont have to manually poll in a loop. They block the current thread till its available if the borrow cannot succeed yet

Mutex

• A Mutex can be considered as a simplified version of RwLock where ther is only borrow_mut. So a Mutex doesnt have to keep a state to count the no. of readers becuse its either we have the reference or someone else has it. Mutex also blocks the thread till it gets a value

Arc (Atomic reference counted)

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• Thread safe reference counting pointer
• Almost similar to Rc except that it uses thread safe atomic operations to manage the reference count