Module: ThreadSafe::Util::CheapLockable

Extended by:

Volatile

Included in:

AtomicReferenceCacheBackend::Node

Defined in:

lib/thread_safe/util/cheap_lockable.rb

Overview

Provides a cheapest possible (mainly in terms of memory usage) Mutex with the ConditionVariable bundled in.

Usage: class A include CheapLockable

def do_exlusively
  cheap_synchronize { yield }
end

def wait_for_something
  cheap_synchronize do
    cheap_wait until resource_available?
    do_something
    cheap_broadcast # wake up others
  end
end
end

Method Summary

Methods included from Volatile

attr_volatile