lesson4.slide

Concurrency
Lesson 4
30 May 2024
Tags: golang, go

Stanislav Kozina <skozina@redhat.com>
Red Hat, Inc.
https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/GoCourse

* Sources
- [[https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/GoCourse]]
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* Concurrency
- Definition: Computations happening at the same time
- Even on single CPU (kernel makes that feeling)

* Communication via message queues
- Analogy of phone calls
- Phone ringing: blocking call
- Answerphone: non-blocking call (tape length = queue size)
- Multiple receivers: Call centre
- Multiple senders: Conf call

* Threads and goroutines
- Reminder: Threads share memory
- Go routines are light-weighted threads, cheap to spawn
- It should be fine to spawn thousands of goroutines
- Internally multiplexed across thread pool
- Spawned with simple go keyword

* Goroutines
.play lesson4/goroutines.go

* Channels
- Way to transfer data between goroutines
- Type of data is part of the channel type
- By default blocks on both tx/rx (but can be buffered too)
- Same operator to send and receive from channel
- Created with make()
.code lesson4/chan.go

* Channels
- Note that this is racy.. more about that later
.play lesson4/chan2.go

* Channels
- Unbuffered channels do block (and golang kindly detects deadlock)
.play lesson4/chan3.go

* Buffered channels
- Size of buffer as second argument to make()
.play lesson4/chan4.go

* Closing channels
- Channels can be closed with close()
- Readers can check for closed channels using optional second return argument
- Alternatively readers can detect closed channel with the loop over range

* Closed channel detection with return value
.play lesson4/chan_close.go

* Closed channel detection with range
.play lesson4/range.go

* Select on multiple channels
- You can read wait on multiple channels at the same time using select

* Select on multiple channels
.play lesson4/select.go

* Quit + ack pattern
.play lesson4/quit_ack.go /^package main/,/^func main/

* Quit + ack pattern (cont.)
.play lesson4/quit_ack.go /^func main/,/^}/

* Default selection
- Default action to take if all other actions would block

* Default selection
.play lesson4/default.go

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