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This chapter adds a few more tools to your mutithreading arsenal: I’ll discuss Singletons (one-of-a kind objects) and critical sections (blocks of code that can be executed by only one thread at a time). Singletons in particular, are surprisingly difficult to implement efficiently in a multithreaded environment, but are essential in most programs (java.awt.Toolkit is an example of a Singleton).
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Holub, A. (2000). Singletons, Critical Sections, and Reader/Writer Locks. In: Taming Java Threads. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1129-7_7
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