sync.WaitGroup waits for a set of goroutines. sync.Mutex and RWMutex protect shared state, always unlocked with defer. sync.Once guarantees one-time initialisation, and atomic operations handle simple counters more cheaply than a mutex.
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24. sync Package
WaitGroup, Mutex and Once.
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