Condition Variables
Explore the concept of condition variables in Ruby's threading model to manage synchronization beyond mutual exclusion. Learn how to use condition variables with mutexes to wait for conditions without busy-waiting. Understand the methods like wait, signal, and broadcast, and how they control thread execution and coordination in concurrent programming.
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Condition Variables
Synchronization mechanisms need more than just mutual exclusion; a general need is to be able to wait for another thread to do something. Condition variables provide mutual exclusion and the ability for threads to wait for a predicate to become true.
Condition variables is always associated with a lock and in case of Ruby that lock is an instance of the Mutex class. Using condition variables allows us to rid ourselves of writing ...