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Mike Talbot ⭐
Mike Talbot ⭐

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One Byte Explainer: Deadly Embrace

This is a submission for DEV Computer Science Challenge v24.06.12: One Byte Explainer.

Deadly embrace stops the world dead when one function holds a "lock" that is also required by a function it calls directly or indirectly. Neither can proceed so it's game over. It can be tough to find and debug.

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