From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-07-01T20:14:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Synchronized Circular Buffer

2010/7/1 Sam Dalton <mail@samdalton.co.nz>:
> Thanks for the help, it works perfectly now. I see that I should treat
> the synchronised block as wrapping the entire method body, just as the
> synchronise keyword would in Java. Makes sense :)

Not necessarily.  The synchronized block must be only as long as
necessary to guard the critical section.  I'd rather say, it's bad to
always synchronize complete methods.

> Is it possible to subscribe to this forum via RSS (or another method)?

There is news:comp.lang.ruby and ruby-talk mailing list - all are
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> Looking forward to the day when I've improved enough to help others.

The day will come - inevitably. :-)

Kind regards

robert


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