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Thread Safe Deferred Callback

Explore how to design and implement a thread-safe class in Ruby that schedules callback methods to execute after a specified delay. Understand the use of priority queues, mutex locks, and condition variables to avoid busy-waiting and ensure efficient synchronization among threads while handling deferred actions.

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Thread Safe Deferred Callback

Design and implement a thread-safe class that allows ...

Solution

Let us try to understand the problem without thinking about concurrency. Let's say our class exposes an API called ...