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In order to understand how locks work, implementing custom locks is a good way. This post will show how to implement Filter and Bakery locks at Java (which are spin locks) and will compare their performances with Java’s ReentrantLock. Filter and Bakery locks satisfies mutual exclusion and are starvation free algorithms also, Bakery lock is a first-come-first-served lock ...