Blocking Queue | Bounded Buffer | Consumer Producer
Classical synchronization problem involving a limited size buffer which can have items added to it or removed from it by different producer and consumer threads. This problem is known by different names: consumer producer problem, bounded buffer problem or blocking queue problem.
Blocking Queue | Bounded Buffer | Consumer Producer
A blocking queue is defined as a queue which blocks the caller of the enqueue method if there's no more capacity to add the new item being enqueued. Similarly, the queue blocks the dequeue caller if there are no items in the queue. Also, the queue notifies a blocked enqueuing thread when space becomes available and a blocked dequeuing thread when an item becomes available in the queue.
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