Another important topic regarding memory management is atomic operations. In this subsection, we will be exploring the definition of being atomic in programming, the roles that atomic operations have in the context of concurrent programming, and finally how to use atomic operations in Python programs.
Atomic operations in Python
What does it mean to be atomic?
Let's first examine the actual characteristic of being atomic. If an operation is atomic in a concurrent program, then it cannot be interrupted by other entities in the program during its execution; an atomic operation can also be called linearizable, indivisible, or uninterruptible. Given the nature of race conditions and how common they are in concurrent programs...