RingoJS

Module ringo/concurrent

Utilities for working with multiple concurrently running threads.

Class Semaphore

Instance Methods


Semaphore (permits)

A counting semaphore that can be used to coordinate and synchronize cooperation between synchronous threads. A semaphore keeps a number of permits.

Note that Worker events are usually run in the single thread of the local event loop and thus don't require synchronization provided by semaphores. The only case when you may want to use a semaphore with workers is when setting the syncCallbacks flag as second argument to Worker.postMessage() since this will cause callbacks from the worker to be run in their own thread instead of the event loop.

To synchronize threads using a semaphore, a threads may ask for one or more permits using the wait and tryWait methods. If the requested number of permits is available, they are subtracted from the number of permits in the semaphore and the method returns immediately.

If the number of requested permits is not available, the wait and tryWait methods block until another thread adds the required permits using the signal method or, in the case of tryWait, the specified timeout expires.

Parameters

Number permits

the number of initial permits, defaults to 0


Semaphore.prototype. signal (permits)

Add one or more permits to the semaphore.

Parameters

Number permits

the number of permits to give, defaults to 1


Semaphore.prototype. tryWait (timeout, permits)

Wait for one or more permits for the given span of time. Returns true if the requested permits could be acquired before the timeout elapsed.

Parameters

Number timeout

The span of time to wait, in milliseconds

Number permits

the number of permits to wait for, defaults to 1

Returns

true if the requested permits could be acquired, false if the timeout elapsed


Semaphore.prototype. wait (permits)

Wait for one or more permits.

Parameters

Number permits

the number of permits to wait for, defaults to 1