Hoare vs Mesa Monitors
Explore the key differences between Hoare and Mesa monitors used in concurrency control. Understand why Mesa monitors require condition checks in loops while Hoare monitors use if-clauses, and how C# adopts Mesa semantics for efficient thread synchronization.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Mesa vs Hoare Monitors
We discussed the abstract concept of a monitor in the previous section. Now let's discuss the various designs for monitors.
Mesa Monitors
So far we have determined that the idiomatic usage of a monitor requires using a while loop as follows. Let's see how the design of monitors affects this ...