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Mutexes, memory alignment, polymorphism and idempotency

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MicrosoftCodingLast asked Oct 2025

A fully technical round of short questions: what a mutex guarantees and how to use one correctly, memory efficiency and why the compiler aligns and pads structures, how runtime polymorphism works (virtual tables), and what makes an operation idempotent and why that matters for retries.

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