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The Critical Section
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A critical section is a code block influencing the results of concurrency or parallelism — where timing can change outcomes, demanding synchronization before entry.
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A payroll pair — one function computing pay, one printing checks — cannot let printing outrun computing.
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Finding the critical sections is the analysis; locking them is the mechanics.
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- Nothing yet depends on this.