Programming: Concurrency Patterns: Difference between revisions
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Safely share an object between multiple threads,<br> | Safely share an object between multiple threads,<br> | ||
automatically wait in caller until a perform is done.<br> | |||
The caller does not need to know about the perform-lock, it will simply block until the monitor is able to process a new task. | The caller does not need to know about the perform-lock, it will simply block until the monitor is able to process a new task. | ||
Revision as of 03:32, 7 August 2022
Resources
Wikipedia: Concurrency Patterns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_pattern
Monitor Object
Safely share an object between multiple threads,
automatically wait in caller until a perform is done.
The caller does not need to know about the perform-lock, it will simply block until the monitor is able to process a new task.Say we only ever want to perform IO from one thread.
We create a WriterMonitor, which might have methods read/write
- in thread-1, we call read(), which blocks while in the background creates and performs a thread
- in thread-2, we call write(), it will block until it is notified that thread-1's read() is finished
Active Object
Decouple thread an object is created in from the thread the object's code will be executed in.
without exposing lock/queue/etc details to the caller.Thread/Subprocess objects are frequently exposed this way (ex:
QtCore.QThread
)
- Caller instantiates a proxy object
- On a method call, the proxy returns a Future/Promise object is created (in background, a request is enqueued)
- In background, a worker performs item from queue
- You may wait/join on the Future/Promise to wait for it to return it's results
Producer/Consumer
Safely parallelized task enqueueing/execution.
- A producer adds data to a synchronized queue
- A variable number of consumers process data from a synchronized queue in a loop
- When producer is finished, send a poison pill for each worker, informing it to break/exit the loop gracefully
- Join on worker threads (wait to close)