The Producer/Consumer (Bounded Buffer) Problem

The next problem we will confront in this chapter is known as the producer/consumer problem, or sometimes as the bounded buffer problem“Information Streams Sharing a Finite Buffer” by E.W. Dijkstra. Information Processing Letters 1, 1972. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd03xx/EWD329.PDF. Did Dijkstra invent everything? No, but maybe close. He certainly was the first to clearly write down what the ...