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A portion of code that must be executed by only one thread at a time.

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One of the hardest things for a new team member to understand is the “big picture” — how classes interact, how data flows through the whole system, and where the entry points are. The person who designed the system often forgets to comment about this stuff because he’s so intimately involved with it.Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher
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