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A tool hiding inside another tool.

Keeping track of two things at once.

Getting it is easy. Getting rid of it is hard.

First, we do it with locks.

Looking for a place to show off.

Most places will do it for you, or at least try.

When you want to use a type without participating in type deduction.

It'll only be Unicode if it's already Unicode.

Taking advantage of co-operative multitasking.

Because that's how many bits were available for reporting the lock count.