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Hoare vs Mesa Monitors

Discover the key distinctions between Hoare and Mesa monitors, two fundamental concurrency designs. Learn why Mesa monitors require predicate rechecking in a while loop due to possible state changes before a thread wakes up, while Hoare monitors allow direct execution without repeated checks. This lesson helps you understand how Ruby uses Mesa monitor semantics for efficient multithreading and why condition checks are essential.

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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 recommendation.


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