Concurrency Showdown: Threads vs. Fibers

Name: Concurrency Showdown: Threads vs. Fibers
Uploaded: 2024-04-11
Duration: 22 min 48 s
Channel: Vishwajeetsingh Desurkar
Description: A comparative exploration of Ruby's concurrency models—threads vs fibers. Covers mutex locks, race conditions, deadlocks, and interrupt handling. Demonstrates a hybrid model using fibers for I/O-bound tasks and threads for CPU work, emphasizing Ruby 3.0's fiber enhancements.

RubyConf Australia 2024 — Sydney, Australia11 April 202422:48

Co-presented with Ishani Trivedi.

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A comparative exploration of Ruby's concurrency models—threads vs fibers. Covers mutex locks, race conditions, deadlocks, and interrupt handling. Demonstrates a hybrid model using fibers for I/O-bound tasks and threads for CPU work, emphasizing Ruby 3.0's fiber enhancements.

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