On: The Fastest Mutexes

[Maxatar]

>Aside from performance, another very common reason is to not lock the UI from the user.

This is not a good fit for parallelism, this is pretty much always accomplished using concurrency ie. async/await.

[int_19h → Maxatar]

Assuming that the APIs & libraries that you need are async. Which is, unfortunately, not always the case for historical reasons.

[SJC_Hacker → Maxatar]

async/await uses threads underneath. And sometimes even that paradigm is not sufficient.