Thread Safety Guarantees — Atomic
A function or operation that appears atomic with respect to other threads - it executes instantaneously from the perspective of other threads.
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A function or operation that appears atomic with respect to other threads - it executes instantaneously from the perspective of other threads. This is the strongest form of thread safety.
Example: PyMutex_IsLocked performs an atomic read of the mutex state and can be called from any thread at any time.
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