Continuing with the general theme of threads and concurrency, today we look at another pattern for splitting up work in parallel.
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Episode #144: Bulk Generation
In this episode we take some already-good code and make it even better.
Episode #143: Thread Interruptions
In this episode we finally discover why the Timeout module is unsafe, and a facility new in Ruby 2.0 that makes dealing with thread interruptions much less error-prone.
Episode #142: Infinity
In today's episode, we'll simplify our thread-safe queue code by employing a "benign value" to represent the default max queue size.
Episode #141: Bounded Queue
We continue to evolve our thread-safe queue implementation. Today, we add the ability to set a bound on the queue size.
Episode #140: Threads are Hard
In this episode some bugs turn up in our thread-safe queue class.
Episode #139: Timed Queue
Continuing to build our own thread-safe queue class, today we give it the ability to handle time out enqueues and dequeues.
Episode #138: Condition Variable
As we continue to explore the fundamental building blocks of multithreaded programming, today we encounter the Condition Variable, and what it has to do with my local delicatessen.
Episode #137: Mutex
In this episode we introduce the concept of a "critical section", and learn about one of the fundamental primitives that makes multithreaded programming possible.