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Explore how to solve the producer consumer concurrency problem using just a mutex in Ruby. Understand the need for busy waiting and the careful unlocking and locking of the mutex to let consumer threads update shared data safely. This lesson teaches practical mutex management without condition variables.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Mutex Implementation
In the previous section we implemented the consumer-producer problem using a mutex and condition variable pair and later using a monitor and condition variable pair. Both of them are the right approaches to solve the problem but for instructional purposes, let's see how we can solve ...